i think talk therapy might be a benefit to me at this current point in my life but i would rather gnaw off my own leg than experience the process of attempting to find a therapist
I'm at the fun point where I have a therapist, but we've gotten comfortable enough with each other for me to realize we have entirely incompatible worldviews and all his advice is actively useless to me. da best.
I decided I want to start therapy for a bunch of reasons, one substantial one of which is that I feel like I've lost a great deal of my motivation. The difficult process of finding and selecting a therapist has thus resulted in one of the great ironies of my life.
It is super hard and I'm having trouble w/ that rn too... if you talk to ur PCP they can give you a referral or a list of places to go in ur area. You don't have to even go to those places but it's a good start.
I somewhat recently went through this and it wasn’t too bad. Took a long time between not looking and looking, and a long time between finding some therapists and actually reaching out, and then finally picking one and being happy with my choice.
God yes. "Hey I could use some help" "sorry wait-list is closed! Try again next decade, or try these people that don't take your insurance and will cost half your income if you're lucky!"
i do my own therapy & counselling because mental healthcare here in ”ontario“ is narcissistic drivel, like everything else, and i cant afford anything anyways due to the death sentence of ODSP
Many years ago the American-only group called 211 dot org helped me find a really nice therapist. And it was 'sliding scale' too so I only paid what I could.
It's hard to define 211, but they are good people.
My insurance makes it such a slog, and it's so infuriating. You have to constantly follow up because they never call back. They'll authorize using a third party therapist since no one's available. Then you start the process over with a vendor. Someone is reaching out for help, help them!
