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Psychology
Trying To Find a Therapist? Good Luck. So Is Everyone Else.
You may be on a waiting list for a while
I’ve resisted the idea of getting a therapist for a year now.
That’s despite the fact that my daughter is a therapist and has made a few hints. Just subtle ones, you know.
Like, “Mom, I really think you should talk to somebody.”
It’s been a tough few years for many of us.
The pandemic. The Russian invasion of Ukraine. Trump’s very existence. Then there’s inflation, climate change, ever-increasing income inequality and myriad bad things we all know are coming.
There’s a huge need for mental health treatment right now. We need a lot more therapists, but despite the fact that therapy is expensive, therapists are modestly paid and not enough people are going into the field.
It’s been tough in my world.
My sister died not quite a year ago in a car crash. I’m about to have a lumpectomy. One of my loved ones is undergoing a terrible divorce in which her partner has done some things so bizarre I can’t write about it without harming her privacy. If I could write her story, I’d get thousands of reads. It’s a case of…
