So as many people have already found out from people who were seeing a psychiatrist or specialist in the field that was being bulk billed, the government made immediate changes overnight that removed bulk billing services for seeing a specialist via Telehealth. Psychiatrists and the like only received a letter or email the day after the announcement was made putting at risk individuals at a loss of having to pay a subsidised rate after seeing their specialist. Not only that but we lack a substantial amount of psychiatrist in the first place that was leading to burn out of psychiatrist in their chosen fields, so now not only will most people who need a relevant diagnosis and medical treatment for their condition have pay a sum out of pocket, there is also an increasing wait time to see a specialist.
In addition in terms of medical treatments for ADHD in my case, in comparison to other countries (where there is a multitude of options and new formulated drugs), it seems that Australia lacks any advancement or interest in helping neurodivergent people. You have two options of stimulant therapy and a couple of non stimulant options. And if that doesn’t work you can try a non PBS/non subsidised drug option that also leaves you hugely out of pocket. (As per my example recently coming off many classes of antidepressants that were routinely and just masking my ADHD out of the misunderstanding of the condition for just depression and anxiety). Recently having to try a new drug that now costs me $60 (non subsidised) a month on top of one stimulant drug I can try that also costs $40 a month(subsidised). This is not right, I don’t work or have the ability to work right now as I’m trying to find a healthy baseline for my mental health thinking I’m doing the right thing, all the meanwhile the government and options out there are putting my mental health backwards.
As well as specialists such as clinical psychologists or adhd counselling costing over $150 (with the rebate “if available”), as my only options for actual possible help for my condition. I have and already am seeing a therapist based off a Gp referred mental health care plan which allows me for 10-15 free sessions a year, but that is nowhere good enough to get to the root cause of my issues or even have the time to address the actual problems of my adhd as they’re not trained in that area of understanding.
So yeah this is troubling for me and many other types of children and adults with ADHD and/or autis
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I just went digging for an old article I have only in my memory about the kids destroying the tile floors at the Hamptons house, triggered by this post by u/Beneficial-Tough4463. I still haven't found what I'm looking for but I stumbled upon this gem from 2016. Everything I've read about the Baldwins is a blur by now, so obligatory apologies if this was circulated in the past and I just plain don't remember it. The quote in this post's title is a gem, I'd say it's even flair-worthy, so I figured I'd make a whole post about it.
Some other grifty gems:
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"Hilaria, who spent much of her childhood in Spain and is raising the couple's three children as bilingual..."
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"Do you think I'm too 'Namaste'?" asks Hilaria.
"No, I think you're very patient," Alec responds.
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"Earlier, I watch as Hilaria spends several minutes persuading Carmen – in Spanish – to change out of her beloved princess costume for the photoshoot."
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"Getting angry doesn't solve anything," he notes, as the conversation turns to Hilaria's recent experience of backlash on social media. After she shared unfiltered selfies of her pregnant body, a vocal minority responded by slamming her photos, calling them "too perfect" and "shameless."
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"Hilaria's strategy now is to write an angry draft response, show it to Alec or a trusted friend, then hit delete." [Me: NOT ANYMORE! 🤣]
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"Having grown up without a television, Hilaria had only a vague understanding of how famous Alec was when they met..."
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"Hilaria, the Family's "Alpha"
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"That fraught relationship with the media is not evident today." [Me: Really?! Were they on a break that year?]
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"What I Have Now is Real" [Me: Um, no]
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"The people I was involved with before always fit into a kind of program – I was married before, and everything was a transaction, it evolved around work and career..." [Me: Like this entire article?]
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"If I won the lottery tomorrow, I probably would never work again." [Me: W
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I didn’t stay with them and thought I’d miss it more
I will go first. For me, its lack of regret.
I think most people are currently operating under the idea that LGBT are born that way, and that they're just being themselves. However, it was acknowledged from the beginning by most scholars that this is formally an act especially in the case of transgenders, a performance.
However, LGBT activists just like Fat Activists (Just Prior to Corona, Obese/Models were plastered all over sydney stations), invented a type of mysticism mentioned in the beginning, that this is actually a biological directive and that these people are being restored or "healed" to align them according to their correct orientation.
The reason that Fat Activists/LGBT propagate this is because otherwise if its revealed that it's just an act of accultured individuals, people will react negatively as these guys will be perceived as subverters of society, selfish, etc and possibly kill or put an end to the propaganda. Which of course at this time cannot be accepted, as this is a practice exclusively used against brown people among the honourable gentlesirs of cambridge.
If it has, how do you think therapy contributed ?
In general I know it's to help people get better. However, my experience has been one where I feel lost. I have been at this for a bit now and feel more lost than ever actually. My therapist says I should direct my own therapy but, I don't even know what I'm aiming for specifically. Should I even be aiming for something or just keep meandering through the dark? What are your goals in therapy and how did you formulate them?
Just that summed up in one phrase. It's a scam, not real therapy and they can get away with unethical behavior whereas doctors can't.
Im a final year medical student and considering psychiatry. In my 2 month placement in psych, I noticed that even though in-patient psych did involve a form of dialogue between psychiatrist and patient, it was mostly centred around practicalities and assorting/labelling symptoms. The discussion never went beyond that into the personal perceptions of the patient about the symptoms. The patient’s history was nothing more than a generic set of events rather than a string of experiences that could relate to the current psychopathology. It basically felt like a factory, where the product is kept inside the factory for the shortest amount of time possible, with the hopes that medication will ease the symptoms enough for them to be sent back home so that the next product could be assembled. I am by no means shitting on the medication/biological model of psychopathology, and understand that theres many ways to approach symptoms and all of them can have an aspect of truth in them. What I don’t get is why, at least in what I experienced in the UK (London), are psychiatrists not also approaching the patient in terms of theory of mind, ego and the subconscious or at least analysing symptoms in a bit more depth with the patient.
This book by Dr. Diamond was incredibly in-depth and honestly gave me a fuller/nuanced understanding of Narcissism. It does mention BPD (in comparison) a little, so I am itching for a clinical book that focuses on on it.
I have been in psychotherapy for three years with my psychiatrist ( She does both psychiatry and therapy). Several months ago she approached me about psychoanalysis. She is studying to become a psychoanalyst and needed a case study. We talked about it and I recently agreed to commit for a year. We start next week with 3-4 sessions per week. I am wondering if anyone else has made this type of transition with the same provider. If so, what was different when you made the switch?
Hi everyone,
A while ago, myself and u/thisnameisquirky started a discord for a leftist psychotherapy reading group! We are just wrapping up Writings for a liberation psychology by Ignacio Martin-Baro and are voting on the next book to read. If you're interested, hop on our discord! We'd love to have you! discord link
C-PTSD is still not recognised nor familier among by psychiatrists therfore it is hard for me to find the right therapy. Dynamic, Schema Therapy, EMDR, Biosyntesys. There so many..
I want to solve how my abusive childhood (father act to me like im his property and over anxious and manipulative mother) reflects on my current relations. Such as trust issues, triggers..
I need someone to help us troubleshoot insurance claims and distribute insurance payments for our psychotherapy firm. I can teach somethings but am generally looking for someone who knows more about insurance than me. We are super small now so it will be part time is. We plan on expanding in the next year. If you know anyone that might be interested pass my email along. JoelBlackstock@Gmail.com .
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Pyscotherapy is a scam. Change my mind
I have done a foundation course in psychotherapy and I would like to continue on to the main studies. In the country I am doing these studies in, there are many different therapy schools on offer, over 20 I think. I am drawn towards systemic family therapy as I went to systemic therapists as part of the course for supervision and my own therapy. I also find person-centred therapy very interesting.
In my home country CBT is incredibly popular and is pushed by many people, especially the health service. All of my friends and acquaintances there who work in mental health are all big on CBT and are often slightly dismissive of systemic or person-centred therapy. CBT is also incredibly interesting for me.
Does anyone have any opinions on or experiences with the different schools? I know that CBT has a lot of empirical evidence to back in up, but the other schools seem very interesting too. I would just be interested in hearing what other people have to say about this :)
It started for me because my dysfunctional family was taking a huge toll on my mental health. I later found it to be really helpful to just sort out my thoughts and improve on myself.
However, it feels to me going for therapy is not a common thing in Singapore. Anything mental health seems more like an afterthought.
So, if you have, what's your story, and what are you trying to achieve? If not, what's stopping you?
My friend told me I am self-aware enough to know the roots of my problems, pero di ko alam kung paano sya issolve. Everyday din kasi ako nagppractice ng meditation.
Really thinking about going to therapy pero nanghihinayang ako to spend 2k+ per session. :(
I had read 1000s of articles that glorify psychotherapy and couple of books also but never thought about the negative sides of it .is there any legit source for exposing the negativities of therapy
Do you know of any free ways to read it?
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Anthony Back, a physician at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, knows many of his colleagues are hurting. Over the past 21 months, they’ve weathered waves of infection, vaccine vitriol and hospital furloughs. At times, they’ve been isolated — in gowns, respirators and masks — from suffering patients whom they’ve been powerless to help survive Covid-19.
“The level of uncertainty and personal vulnerability and feeling like maybe you weren’t doing the right thing has really just been off the charts,” Back said. “These are physicians and nurses who experienced so much death firsthand.” As health care professionals across the U.S. look for ways to deal with the mental and emotional anguish that has been wrought by the pandemic, Back is looking in a new, once-taboo, direction.
In a first-of-its kind clinical trial at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Back’s research team will treat 30 depressed medical professionals with a dose of synthetic psilocybin — a psychedelic drug — to see if the drug, along with psychotherapy, can reduce their mental anguish. It follows small clinical trials of psilocybin in people with cancer and major depressive disorder that suggested it could help reduce depression and anxiety in these groups. Other research suggested the drug could treat alcohol use disorder. That medical researchers are turning toward psilocybin to treat colleagues is representative of a growing curiosity and acceptance of the drug among those in the medical establishment.
“If this was done 5 to 10 years ago, I don’t think you would get approval,” said Dr. Stephen Ross, the associate director of the New York University Langone Health Center for Psychedelic Medicine. The research also highlights concerns over burnout and depression among the workers the nation has leaned on for nearly two years. “This is a serious crisis within medicine,” said Dr. Charles Grob, a professor of psychiatry at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. “We don’t have a good handle on how to provide in-depth, existential support for the front-line health workers. Back has experienced the anguish of treating Covid-19 patients. Back practices palliative care, which means he tries to help patients improve their quality of life and reduce suffering as they face serious illness.
Wearing protective gear, keeping distance from patients’ families and reducing bedside visits changed the nature of his work and that of colleagues. Then, as disruptions to surgery schedules a
... keep reading on reddit ➡As society changes, what ideas you like to see retired in the field of therapy? Is there something that feels outdated, no longer something that shouldn’t be seen as a core competency etc? Maybe you have experienced something in therapy with multiple therapists that you realized is part of how therapy is conducted but could be done differently.
Curious to hear what others think can be improved. Both client and therapist perspectives welcome.
I've been in SE with my current therapist for a year. This new year however she's saying that my trauma is so complex that I have to take psychotherapy or else she will no longer be able to work with me.
Am I in the wrong for feeling angry at her, seeing as her threat of abandonment feels like a trauma in and of itself?
Is this normal?
See title, or specific practitioners I guess, preferably men. Thank ya.
I'm sure this will vary wildly depending on the client's experiences...
I'm seeing someone and have noticed a big change/improvement in my way of thinking about things, my confident, but I also feel I have so much I need to work through... it's been now about 6 months since I've started. Just wondered if it takes years.
Are there therapists that participate in marijuana assisted psychotherapy? Or just show up to therapy stoned? Lol
With me having had to repeatedly promise her recently that I will attempt to use psychotherapy to treat my gender dysphoria first, I have now internalized the view that I have to instead of viewing it as a lie.
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