Self care Tuesday

I wish finding a therapist who wasn't cuckoo for cocoa puffs was easier. The number of "psychologists" with fucking wacky ass religious beliefs that fucking infect their practice is too god damned high!

Also, I wish that, as a person in poverty, that the services available to me didn't require 200 page questionnaires and a diagnosis of a specific mental malady to even be able to begin to get help.

If I was a rich man, I somehow suspect I could find a psychologist who wouldn't require massive questionnaires after I've already done my intake paperwork. I could find someone who would just start talking to me, without the need to prove something to the government about whether or not they're effective in helping me.

Motherfucker, I just want someone professional to talk to. Why are the poor always punished like this by being made to jump through such hoops to get help.

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I wish finding a therapist who wasn't cuckoo for cocoa puffs was easier. The number of "psychologists" with fucking wacky ass religious beliefs that fucking infect their practice is too god damned high!
Also, I wish that, as a person in poverty, that the services available to me didn't require 200 page questionnaires and a diagnosis of a specific mental malady to even be able to begin to get help.
If I was a rich man, I somehow suspect I could find a psychologist who wouldn't require massive questionnaires after I've already done my intake paperwork. I could find someone who would just start talking to me, without the need to prove something to the government about whether or not they're effective in helping me.
Motherfucker, I just want someone professional to talk to. Why are the poor always punished like this by being made to jump through such hoops to get help.
I'm off health insurance right now and I have been for 6 months just... Without dealing with it. Phone call anxiety, I guess? Its not without cause, but I'm not getting into it all. Over these months Ive spent so much time dealing with emotional shit that a therapist would have likely helped me through, potentially even over the phone, in 2 or 3 sessions. I tend to take really thorough, perfectionist, and slow routes through everything. I noticed a girl in a discord I'm in and she's my age and her HRT (trans medicine) start date is the exact day I would have gotten mine, but I canceled my appointment to be courteous to other people in my life. It wasnt even helpful in the end, I could have gone to my appointment and everything would have been just fine. And now she has started growing tits, and I am sitting here upset about a million and one things, none of which are really the core reason I'm upset but rather sidetracks, I'm actually upset that I havent started HRT. Thats it. Thats the whole game.