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rebeccmeister ([personal profile] rebeccmeister) wrote2022-06-20 11:34 am

The mental health and other care provider super-crisis

I am very curious to know the extent to which people are paying attention to the consequences of the pandemic-exacerbated mental health situation, on mental health healthcare professionals.

Also about what happens when doctors' offices and dentists are Full and cannot take on new patients.

Kind of on that whole front, I am reaching a point now where I am thinking that I may forge ahead with new cats, in mid-July, regardless of whether or not I can manage to obtain veterinary care closer to home than the 17-mile one way trek out to Nassau.

I am thinking to adopt two relatively young cats, and to get them accustomed to harnesses and at least some level of bicycle travel.
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[personal profile] graydon 2022-06-20 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)

The interesting one (from my perspective) is life expectancy. It's clearly decreasing, but it's unclear if it's plummeting. (In part because most Canadian provinces stopped reporting deaths late in 2020, rendering what was always a laggy indicator hypothetical.)

"How much of that decrease is due to plague, and how much to medical system ablation?" is an even more difficult question than the actual current number, but I would unsurprised if it's more than half.

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[personal profile] bluepapercup 2022-06-20 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
As someone who needs relatively more medical care I see a disaster brewing and it’s frankly frightening.
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[personal profile] twoeleven 2022-06-20 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
the extent to which people are paying attention to the consequences of the pandemic-exacerbated mental health situation, on mental health healthcare professionals.
Ten seconds on the internet can save you months of wondering. :)
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[personal profile] twoeleven 2022-06-20 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
My understanding of talk therapy is pretty limited, but my vague understanding is that individual therapy and group therapy serve different purposes.

If nothing else, telehealth reduces the vast wastes of patient time that seem to plague medicine these days. By doing that, telehealth essentially increases accessibility, since a X minute appointment takes X minutes, rather than X minutes plus random amounts of diving and waiting time.
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[personal profile] altamira16 2022-06-21 12:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I think that even if people are reporting struggles, they are not getting the care they need.

Group therapy can be very strange depending on what type of stuff the group is struggling with.

My sister appreciated her cancer group being mad and disappointed as the pandemic safeguards fell. People with cancer wanted to travel too, and removing mask mandates on airplanes makes it harder for them.

[personal profile] shalpacafarm 2022-06-21 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
I know someone in Seattle who might be helpful but it would be without insurance