What mental health resources? My aunt has such crippling anxiety she can barely get out of bed a couple times a week, and all she can get from both Medicare & Medicaid, while living in a care facility, is a Lexapro scrip, an hour with a social worker every 2 weeks, and a 5 minute checkup with a traveling psychiatrist every other month or so.

Everywhere you go, it's "We can't put you on the sliding scale if you have no proof of income; apply for Medicaid". Then when you're on Medicaid, "We're not accepting any new Medicaid patients at this time" - or ever, apparently. If you ever get to see the sliding scale, it bottoms out at $45 a session, and they want you to go 2x a week? A f***ing drinking habit is cheaper...

Oh, they mean suicide hotlines. Sure. Don't kill yourself, peon. Someone has to answer the phones and open the stores on Monday, after all, or people might get upset...

Seriously, though, nobody take this as against hotlines or talking people down from self-harm. That's a universal good. Don't accept a permanent solution to a temporary problem and all that. I just find the state of behavioral health services laughable.

Would have been nice to see this, like, a week or so earlier from my end but hopefully it helps someone.

Not for kids. There’s nothing. I’ve been given list after list, by my insurance, school counselors and crisis counselors and the pediatrician. The ones who do answer recommend other places for me to call. I’ve had my child on waiting lists that never contacted me. The majority of places I left a message with never called me back. I have the school counselor telling me that I just need to keep calling but I’ve called so many numbers that I can barely keep straight which ones I spoke to. I finally got through to a therapist office this week who sounded hopeful but recommended a psych evaluation with a psychiatrist. That’s even more phone calls. I am tired. No one has room for one more kid unless I borderline harass them? It shouldn’t be like this.

Every single therapist I’ve been to is such a pill pusher. And there are no resources, everything costs money. You either have to be insured or pay high costs out of pocket. And if you won’t take their pills, you “don’t want help”.

Public reminds state that they allow carcinogens into our water supply because bribery is like breathing in Pennsylvania.

I don't need mental health resources, I need UC resources so I'm not paying 100% of my income in taxes due to Covid!!!