I left the field precisely because I became disillusioned with the entire system of “help” for people without significant monetary means being to provide brief coping strategy trainings because their therapy allotment is extremely limited, toss some pills at them, and throw them right back at their problems that are MOST OFTEN either caused by or exacerbated by long-term economic struggles.
Our gallows joke of a mental health system in the US is designed to get the poor that need help right back to producing value for the class of people that get unlimited mental health assistance and intentionally leave the poor struggling in subsistence to live large, right back to what drove them to the ledge, often with a fresh debt load burden to add to their existing burdens as this post points out for the crime of breaking down and begging “please, somebody fucking help me!” in one form or another.
I am literally still traumatized from the profound lack of help I was permitted to provide these people.
I truly don’t mean to offend, but your pretty words don’t reflect the reality the poor and working poor contend with at all, and I can tell you from years of trying to be the change for them with few to no significant resources to offer that many of them correctly find it patronizing.
Also mental health practitioner here. The confused looks my family gives when they ask how to solve the mental health crisis. And I say worker’s rights, better pay, affordable housing, single payer health care, measures against online radicalization, etc
I was a practicing psychologist.
I left the field precisely because I became disillusioned with the entire system of “help” for people without significant monetary means being to provide brief coping strategy trainings because their therapy allotment is extremely limited, toss some pills at them, and throw them right back at their problems that are MOST OFTEN either caused by or exacerbated by long-term economic struggles.
Our gallows joke of a mental health system in the US is designed to get the poor that need help right back to producing value for the class of people that get unlimited mental health assistance and intentionally leave the poor struggling in subsistence to live large, right back to what drove them to the ledge, often with a fresh debt load burden to add to their existing burdens as this post points out for the crime of breaking down and begging “please, somebody fucking help me!” in one form or another.
I am literally still traumatized from the profound lack of help I was permitted to provide these people.
I truly don’t mean to offend, but your pretty words don’t reflect the reality the poor and working poor contend with at all, and I can tell you from years of trying to be the change for them with few to no significant resources to offer that many of them correctly find it patronizing.
Also mental health practitioner here. The confused looks my family gives when they ask how to solve the mental health crisis. And I say worker’s rights, better pay, affordable housing, single payer health care, measures against online radicalization, etc
“Sorry, I’m looking for a solution that doesn’t cost any time or effort.”