Posted by softheprairie on January 29, 2010, at 6:10:35
In reply to I don't understand my T, posted by AppleG10 on January 28, 2010, at 19:16:37
> Hi. This is my first post here. I don't understand my T. I just got out of a two month inpatient hospital stay for bipolar. She decided I'm now well enough to see her every other week. WTH! I just got out of the hospital! Of course I'm not well enough yet! What do I do? I've had other problems with this T and she wasn't my first choice, but so far I thought things were okay. Help!
Maybe this is how _my_ mind goes, but I wonder if it has to do with money. I think if a client self-pays the therapist's full rate, openings for more appointments would be easy to come by, or one would have many options to find another t with more openings easily. Then, people with a private insurance that reimburses the t well may have just slightly less ease in getting more appointments. Then a bit harder if it's a private insurance, but one that is stingy to the t. But woe unto the masses with a poorly-paying insurance such as Medicaid or Medicare, or an uninsured client relying on a reduced-cost arrangement. Also, if the t is at a public agency, her caseload may be unreasonably large, but there may be no way for her to reduce it. So I could easily imagine the poor, and even middle class, being told, this is all we'll let you have (affordably), take it or leave it.
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