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rebeccmeister) wrote2022-06-20 11:34 am
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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.
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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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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Ten seconds on the internet can save you months of wondering. :)
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Now I'm wondering about the extent to which there could be a shift towards more group therapy possibilities (no need to internet search on this; this is idle wondering!). If up to 40% of adults are reporting mental health struggles, it kind of seems like a change in models of care is needed. I know it's happening to some extent already, thanks to expanded telehealth options.
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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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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.
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After I wrote the reply about group therapy, I did a brief internet search and encountered an article that noted that in some ways, the pandemic has greatly improved access to group therapy for people. And if I think about it - yeah, I could see how that would work. With conventional in-person group therapy, you have to figure out how to get all the people together in a physical space. But on the flipside: I kind of feel like our brains don't process Internet-based experiences in quite the same way as in-person experiences. And yet, at the end of the day, I suspect the benefits of online group therapy are higher than would exist in the absence of online group therapy as an option.
I'm personally pretty grateful for
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