• fireweed@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    A psych PhD I know once said of their fellow grad students: “most of them could have saved a lot of time and money if they’d just gone to therapy instead.”

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      7 months ago

      You know what? I’ve been in therapy for 20+ years of varying degree, and if I estimate out of pocket cost at $50/2 weeks that’s about $26,000. 1 hour a session is 520 hours.

      A Ph.D. would cost significantly more time than that and the program cost itself is hard to determine.

      In a nut shell - yep.