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• pizzahoe@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Most of my friends who have tried therapy just leave after a session or two and claim their problems have gone away, dodge further sessions and never actually gave it a real try. Then a week later they will go through the same issues again. It sucks to see them this way… I’ve tried to help them to go to therapy consistently but very few actually do.

  You can’t solve 20 years worth of emotional issues in a few sessions… it takes years of therapy to actually get better. Not to mention societal stigma against going to therapy makes it even harder.

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  • Aielman15@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Years of therapy cost a LOT of money though, not everyone can afford that.

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    • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      As the pizza hoe mentioned, it’s very country dependent. Where I live, therapists are, like other medical specialists, paid from taxes, so free at the point of use (not all of them, they need some licenses etc.). Or you can pay for them out of pocket if you want.

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      • derpo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You live in a utopia

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    • pizzahoe@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is very location dependent. I live in India and an hour of therapy session costs around 15$(average bill if two people eat at a normal restaurant to put things into perspective).

      If you can’t afford that, don’t worry as many not for profit organisations exist which will help you with free therapy. But this comes at the cost of therapists who themselves are paid like shit. But none of this applies to my friends because their job is ready to pay(your boss can’t find out you go to therapy btw) in case they want therapy but they still are hesitant. It’s more to do with how people will perceive you if they hear you’re going to therapy.

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      • Aielman15@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Woah, that’s awesome. I live in Italy and my therapist asked for €70/hour. I eventually had to choose between daily expenses, university fees and therapy, and the latter was, unfortunately, the one I decided to cut.

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  • Riyria@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, but when therapy costs $100-$200 per session and is not always covered by health insurance (in the US at least) what else are you going to do? In most places in the US it’s also very very very hard to get in to see an actual Psychologist, and nigh on impossible to get in to a Psychiatrist, so most people are stuck with LSCWs who are not competent at all, and often times make matters worse. Mental healthcare in the US is an absolute joke.

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