I will pay anyone who can successfully argue the negative case on this lmao

Psychologists are expensive af - $250 per session is average.

In Australia, medicare only gets you 10 free sessions a year (with a GP referal) and professionals have been pointing out, for years, that it's nowhere near enough to help someone.

Dude same tho. Tbh that's why I haven't tried to get help for mental illness. It's why I'm still diagnosed.

Also important to draw attention to the financial and time costs of getting to and from appointments, engaging in treatments (from medications to changes in exercise/diet to 'homework' etc)...

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I mean, I don't think any country has a mental healthcare system that can efficiently help lower income people. I'm fairly certain that it's not overly great in NZ (probably Misanthrope86 would know more about that than me, but yeah) as far as what I know. A friend of my dad's had to cope with schizophrenia for decades and he only really got pills that made him sleepy and lethargic, which didn't really help him much, since he was normally quite an active bloke. But, to make matters worse, when he had a fall walking to the hut he owned on a piece of land he owned, he eventually got thrown into a shitty retirement village, where he died a few years later. So yeah, I doubt any system is very well arranged enough to deal with lower income people.