Therapy is damn expensive

[cemeteryismyhome]

Last night I decided to finally try therapy to help me stop speaking in such a combative way at work, because I'm worried I'm going to get fired one of these days. So I looked around and wow are they expensive!!! Around $100 for the privilege of telling someone about my "mental health" before we can even move on to what I want to talk about. Somewhere around $400 per month for this stuff. For that much money I could do something fun ( if I ever wanted to do something fun, which I don't ). I'm going to try journaling instead, and working on my resume just in case. I feel sorry for everyone who has to pay so much for needed help, or who wants to get help but can't afford it. It's not fair.

 

[DivineSpark]

It is free in my country (well taxpayers pay)

 

[Forveleth]

Yeah. One of the reasons I quit. I am not paying someone $100's to not be helpful. I also went back to school and I had to choose between therapy and tuition.

 

[2messdup]

Last night I decided to finally try therapy to help me stop speaking in such a combative way at work, because I'm worried I'm going to get fired one of these days. So I looked around and wow are they expensive!!! Around $100 for the privilege of telling someone about my "mental health" before we can even move on to what I want to talk about. Somewhere around $400 per month for this stuff. For that much money I could do something fun ( if I ever wanted to do something fun, which I don't ). I'm going to try journaling instead, and working on my resume just in case. I feel sorry for everyone who has to pay so much for needed help, or who wants to get help but can't afford it. It's not fair.

In the UK, basic therapy is free but there's very limited trauma therapy. I looked into schema therapy and it was £145\session and my weekly income is £140/week.
If you're looking for better ways to express yourself, I was recommended the book (and accompanying workbook) called "Non-violent communication" by Marshall B. Rosenberg. It teaches you to communicate with empathy, collaboration, authenticity and freedom, so it says. It was recommended to me on an autism site where people were finding it difficult to communicate with neurotypical people but I have to admit, although I bought the book, I've never taken the time to read it. But other people on the site thought it had helped them.

 

[malia]

In my country it's free if your doctor gives you a paper that you need it, else it's around 40+ per session. I tried some therapy few times, it didn't help me at all. Once I even cried a lot and she was just looking at me. I know they can't hug you or anything but it felt weird, I don't feel comfortable talking to such person then. She validated my feelings, that helped me a lot, because I was blamed a lot by my ex and his family and she told me what I feel is valid, that was nice. Anyway, I know many people don't like this but sometimes I talk to gpt about my issues and I must say it helps me much much much more than my therapist used to help.

 

[2messdup]

In my country it's free if your doctor gives you a paper that you need it, else it's around 40+ per session. I tried some therapy few times, it didn't help me at all. Once I even cried a lot and she was just looking at me. I know they can't hug you or anything but it felt weird, I don't feel comfortable talking to such person then. She validated my feelings, that helped me a lot, because I was blamed a lot by my ex and his family and she told me what I feel is valid, that was nice. Anyway, I know many people don't like this but sometimes I talk to gpt about my issues and I must say it helps me much much much more than my therapist used to help.

I used to use chatgpt a lot but eventually it only offered to write thiings down for me to tell people or suggested a weighted blanket. I did use it yesterday after trying for hours to do night-night (obviously unsuccessfully) because I was seeing double for a short time so i did the "i have a friend who did this and is seeing double.....' thing to check what it would be (if you say it's you it panics and just keeps repeating "call the crisis team or a helpline, I can't help you"). So I use it less and less. I find it is a terrible yes-man. Its main priority seems to be to agree with you.

 

[malia]

I used to use chatgpt a lot but eventually it only offered to write thiings down for me to tell people or suggested a weighted blanket. I did use it yesterday after trying for hours to do night-night (obviously unsuccessfully) because I was seeing double for a short time so i did the "i have a friend who did this and is seeing double.....' thing to check what it would be (if you say it's you it panics and just keeps repeating "call the crisis team or a helpline, I can't help you"). So I use it less and less. I find it is a terrible yes-man. Its main priority seems to be to agree with you.

Yes, it's usually validating everything you say and it won't help you much if you say you wanna end your life or anything. It helped me in a sense that it made me see things from a different view and I feel less shitty about myself. Also when the nights get shitty and I have nobody to talk to, I just cry and tell it everything on my heart, it calms me down and I can go to sleep. I wish I can just say it that I'm suicidal and other things and it would talk to me, not give me some numbers to call..

 

[2messdup]

Yes, it's usually validating everything you say and it won't help you much if you say you wanna end your life or anything. It helped me in a sense that it made me see things from a different view and I feel less shitty about myself. Also when the nights get shitty and I have nobody to talk to, I just cry and tell it everything on my heart, it calms me down and I can go to sleep. I wish I can just say it that I'm suicidal and other things and it would talk to me, not give me some numbers to call..

Sometimes you can get round that last bit by saying it's your online friend and you don't know where they live. I got it to try to help with nigh-night like that last night.

 

[Griever]

People always say to seek professional help, but then it should cost less or be covered by health insurance

 

[anonymouswebuser]

Last night I decided to finally try therapy to help me stop speaking in such a combative way at work, because I'm worried I'm going to get fired one of these days. So I looked around and wow are they expensive!!! Around $100 for the privilege of telling someone about my "mental health" before we can even move on to what I want to talk about. Somewhere around $400 per month for this stuff. For that much money I could do something fun ( if I ever wanted to do something fun, which I don't ). I'm going to try journaling instead, and working on my resume just in case. I feel sorry for everyone who has to pay so much for needed help, or who wants to get help but can't afford it. It's not fair.

Yeah I hate that, too.
It's over 400 pounds in my country for one session
If you manage to find a cheap one it'll be 250 at least
other than the tests they gave me that were too freaking expensive one of them was 600 pounds??
and honestly I felt like there were "filler sessions" where my therapist was just trying to find something helpful to say and I'd finish that session feeling no different

 

[Pluto]

 

[imtiredasf]

Man, it's so fucked up. In the States, it's easier for me to get brain help if I'm on fed insurance than it would be if I worked and paid into a private plan through any of the dead end jobs around here.