Is anyone else tired of the “Help is Available” lie? The truth is unless you’re independently wealthy, there is little to no help out there. My insurance pays nothing to see a professional clinical counselor. Psychiatrist visits are only for medication management. I know of many others in them same boat. I need intensive IP treatment but it’s just not going to happen.
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I live in Oregon and help is indeed available to me, she is such a good therapist asking me questions like did you know that actually your insurance covers you for weekly sessions instead of once a month? Can I schedule you for a zoom call instead? And things like gosh it’s easy to make a living staring into a phone screen and not saying anything for minutes at a time
no wonder she wants zoom calls! hell, she should do telephone only appts. if she does other things and not pay attention at all to what you’re saying, you’ll never know!
dude if I could wipe 1 phrase out of the english language it would be “help is available”. it ranks up there with “snap out of it” in terms of unhelpful things you can say to a suicidal person.
If we get right down to it, quippy phrases like these are made so that normal people can feel better about themselves. They can have a clear conscience enjoying their privileged lives even though others are suffering horribly because they tell themselves “help is available” so they can blame the victim for not “reaching out”.
The truth is that human society across the globe is very structured into levels of privilege, and only the top levels can get anything resembling help (until their own money runs out)
yep, “help is available” only when you’re rich. or you live in a better country than the USA that actually has social services.
yep #2- Americans are great at victim blaming- it is the fault of the INDIVIDUAL if they have shit lives, and no it can’t possibly be bc the rich have suppressed the lives and wages of the masses to the point where it’s choking us.
“Help is Available” is the standard slogan one will encounter. There is no help, this is the reality. Even amongst the very wealthy the outcome from intensive treatment tends to be quite unsatisfactory. Anyone I ever knew who tried treatment ended up worse than ever. A physical problem may or may not be curable but suicidal depression is a completely different story. I’d like to give you a more positive answer but this site ( and probably the thing I like best about this site) is for the truth, and the truth is seldom if ever positive.
oh i can tell you for a fact that for-profit medical care in the USA leads to shitty care for physical problems as well. healthy people do not generate income, but sick people do. so they have a perverse incentive to make us sick and keep us sick. every single time i’ve been to a dr for a physical problem, i come out MUCH WORSE.
these “drs” have ruined my life