I’ve been in and out too. The biggest problem is cost, because in-network doesn’t provide you with enough sessions (insurance limits the number of sessions), you’re stuck having to pay out of network costs if you want more than once a month or once a week. I was looking at an extra 4 times a week, but therapists were quoting me $250 per 50 min session.
That’s $1000 per week, I cant afford that and I’m confident in my extreme thoughts getting worse and there’s nobody I can talk to about extreme vengeful hurtful thoughts and once a month or even once a week isn’t going to help when I’m genuinely asking for 4 sessions a week but insurance will never cover that so I’m stuck having to pay out of pocket and as I said this once a week is just not enough and so I’m stuck with my thoughts where only every now and then I can make a rational thought and the rest of the day is filled with unimaginable extreme pain and extreme thoughts.
And worse, therapists won’t reduce their price from $250 per session hour for these extra 4 sessions per week that I’m requesting, because, obviously $1000 per week (for 4 sessions) is a lot of money for them. This industry turns into a sham when therapists can charge $1000 per week to the man scraping by (but looks healthy enough to give the impression he can afford that amount)
Haha, someone finally called it out. The people who should be listening to these emotional stories should be your friends. The fact that there’s an entire industry means that Human being are lonelier than ever before.
The entire Mental Health Industry needs to be redone. Insurance problems and number of sessions are the biggest problems. Some people have such severe issues that they need possibly up to 5 times a week. But with out-of-pocket therapy sessions costing $300/hr at places like Beth Israel Hospital, there’s just no way anybody could afford that.
Planning is the first step towards first degree anything, teehee, but I can’t go back unless I get 5.
I have thousands of more ideas on how to improve the mental health industry.
This was the most interesting part of the article. It’d be nice if someone could verify this claim with more research and study.
>Tylenol (acetaminophen) is the least-effective over-the-counter painkiller. At the time of writing, it beats placebo 62% of time. To put that in perspective, taking a sugar pill will cure your headache better than Tylenol 38% of the time. In other words, it’s not that effective.
>Going back to the depression page, we can see that our favorite SSRI, Lexapro, beats placebo 58% of the time. In other words, the best SSRI that big pharma can muster has a probability of benefit 4 points worse than Tylenol—the least effective painkiller. Let me say that again: the worst headache cure you’ve tried is more powerful than every SSRI.
Suicidal thoughts are also like a domino effect or chain reaction.
The first thought is fleeting. But as time goes on, another domino falls, and as things aren’t going quite your way, another domino falls, and as isolation takes over, another domino falls, and as anger and resentment builds, another domino falls, and that’s how those suicidal thoughts increase to the point of actually doing it.
And once the dominos start falling, faster and faster, it’s very hard to stop it.
All of you have had a suicidal thought. But most of you have found a reason to nip it before the dominos truly start to fall.
That’s $1000 per week, I cant afford that and I’m confident in my extreme thoughts getting worse and there’s nobody I can talk to about extreme vengeful hurtful thoughts and once a month or even once a week isn’t going to help when I’m genuinely asking for 4 sessions a week but insurance will never cover that so I’m stuck having to pay out of pocket and as I said this once a week is just not enough and so I’m stuck with my thoughts where only every now and then I can make a rational thought and the rest of the day is filled with unimaginable extreme pain and extreme thoughts.
And worse, therapists won’t reduce their price from $250 per session hour for these extra 4 sessions per week that I’m requesting, because, obviously $1000 per week (for 4 sessions) is a lot of money for them. This industry turns into a sham when therapists can charge $1000 per week to the man scraping by (but looks healthy enough to give the impression he can afford that amount)