Comment on The mental health industry is probably profiting a lot from political turmoil.
Unlearned9545@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The mental health workers I know are overworked over stressed and making the same or less money as they were 5 years ago.
pedz@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
I make a difference between the workers and the industry.
Therapists where I live can work in the public system, or in the private system.
It’s free to see a therapist in the public system and they are paid by the government, but it’s nearly impossible to have a session because they are booked months and months in advance. So they are not making more from this.
Then there’s the ones working privately, usually also booked months in advance but for a few hundred dollars an hour. They are also not making more from this because they were already working full time.
However there is a “mental health industry”, like Betterhelp, that will gladly exploit and profit from the circumstances.