Posted by alexandra_k on October 26, 2004, at 18:51:46
In reply to Relativity » alexandra_k, posted by Dinah on October 26, 2004, at 8:29:15
Hey Dinah, would you believe that I was thinking about this thread before I went off to sleep last night and I worried about how you would respond / react to it! I say this because I have read some of your threads where you have talked about your concern about how much money you do spend on therapy at times. I really didn't want to upset people.
I agree with you about 'effectiveness'. I know that in my own case when I am working well with someone it is much more cost effective for the mental health service. I haven't SI'd in a couple of years, but when I used to SI it would be the difference between being a highly functioning student, and being in hospital with severe cuts from SI on 24 hour obs and off my face on medication because when you have got the vegetable thing going on then you aren't so busy devising ways to top yourself.
I hate it when people try to measure effectiveness for a diagnosis then predict how effective it will be for me on the basis of my diagnosis. I am an individual dammit. I am not a typical case of anything.
What my point is, though, is that when therapy clearly is so effective (in your case, and mine, and in many other peoples) when it is so effective that it clearly is a need - then why do you guys have to pay for it like it is a luxury? That is what gets to me. And those who are functioning so badly that therapy could make all the difference in the world - well, they are the ones who can't afford it. Sure I whinge a fair bit about how I can't get (free) adequate treatment here, but to be fair I had the opportunity to do one year of DBT, and how many people (who qualify) get that - free or otherwise.
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