• deweydecibel@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      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.

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        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

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

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          I lucked out and happen to be going for my Master‘s degree. The University had a trainee do it for only 500 usd. I have my suspicions the other place (with the quote) may be an extreme example, but it’s still insane

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      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

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