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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The price tag on that therapy, for one.

Legitimately, it's one of sickest jokes about this country, that you can spend an hour with a therapist working on improving your mood, walk out of the session, and have it immediately undone when the receptionist tells you what the copay is.

[–] wintermutehal@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is so crazy to me. Many mental health places near me won‘t even take insurance. I got an estimate on getting tested for ADHD the other day at 5k. This was after the year wait to even hear back.

[–] TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I had the same problem with my provider that tested my children, the provider recently stopped taking insurance so they quoted me 11000 dollars to do an autism/ADHD battery of tests so I had to decline, I need to eventually get back around to calling around and see if I can find some luck

[–] Moonguide@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

At that point, would going to mexico be better? I mean, goddamn, 5k. I got mine done for the equivalent of 500usd.

[–] TheaoneAndOnly27@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

100% agree that it's fucked up, but also you should check on if there's some sort of a community counseling program. I know where I live they do community counseling and it's sliding scale down to $5. I really wish that was more places

[–] Drusas@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Those community counseling programs tend to be absolutely overwhelmed and have very long wait times.