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In reply to the discussion: "If you dress like that and you get raped and I'm on the jury, he's gonna go free." [View all]Irish_Dem
(49,218 posts)I miss it. But yes it is very demanding, challenging and entails a great deal of responsibility
and high standard of care.
Yes managed care oligarchs ruined the mental health profession some decades ago.
They swooped in took over the mental health portion of the insurance company policies
and then just blatantly refused to pay for mental health services or paid a pittance.
Even though patients had mental health benefits in their policies.
The rich corporations pocketed the mental health money for themselves.
It was a real crime, but nothing we could do about it.
Vulture capitalism.
So psychologists were working for free or for peanuts
and that cannot last long.
Many professionals went out of business, and got other jobs.
I was able to hang in there, I ran my own small practice.
And kept my costs low.
Things did pick up, but mental health was not something many wanted
to take a chance on in terms of a career.
And now getting a PhD is so expensive to become a therapist.
So now there are more master's level therapists.
And psychiatrists make the lowest amount of all medical specialities.
So there is a real shortage.