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GB_RN

(3,508 posts)
34. It's Not Just The VA...
Sun Jan 5, 2025, 11:49 AM
Jan 2025

Behaviors Health (now the preferred term for psychiatric services) is overwhelmed everywhere. It was always lagging behind need, but the pandemic caused it to go from concerning to alarmingly slow. Try getting an appointment with someone. Especially if you can’t afford private practice BH therapists. Practitioners with major/academic medical centers, which pretty much have to take Medicaid, are more than swamped. It can take months to see someone for an initial assessment.

The only other group that compares would be dermatology. Why treat cancerous moles when you can make big bucks in private practice, injecting collagen into people’s lips/cheeks; and lifts, tucks and enhancements (butt, breast and calves. Yes, calf implants.) ? Oh, can’t forget Botox. Not being able to show facial expressions (and adding to that, getting too much Botox and looking like Matt Gaetz with his raised-at-the-end eyebrows) is of far less importance than not having wrinkles around your eyes, forehead and mouth.🤦‍♂️🙄👎

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well at least hes out of the gene pool... samnsara Jan 2025 #1
True... but it does not make me encouraged by their "intel" ability NotHardly Jan 2025 #45
I had a cop stop and talk to me. multigraincracker Jan 2025 #2
You Don't Look The Type... GB_RN Jan 2025 #32
.... "he sought mental health treatment,..." IcyPeas Jan 2025 #3
Did he... 2naSalit Jan 2025 #4
They keep mentioning PTSD. But, yeah, i dont know if he actually saw anyone. IcyPeas Jan 2025 #6
Last time I heard... 2naSalit Jan 2025 #9
re: "The word 'sought' seems to imply that he probably made an appointment but unclear of anything after that." thesquanderer Jan 2025 #18
Thanks. 2naSalit Jan 2025 #21
A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse taxi Jan 2025 #28
He WAS evaluated. Whether he was evaluated WELL is a different question. thesquanderer Jan 2025 #43
It's Not Just The VA... GB_RN Jan 2025 #34
Interesting since he was still active duty military... Historic NY Jan 2025 #20
I would like to know those answers too. StarryNite Jan 2025 #33
Just as I thought johnnyfins Jan 2025 #5
The military is cranking out extremist. Blue Full Moon Jan 2025 #13
about reagan i started noticing the radical christians rampartd Jan 2025 #17
I would suggest the military doesn't "crank out" militants. Violence-prone militants are attracted to military service Martin68 Jan 2025 #35
Cookie cutter Blue Full Moon Jan 2025 #38
Doesn't Fox Propaganda play at military bases? not fooled Jan 2025 #24
Yes indeed Blue Full Moon Jan 2025 #39
The promised purge of Democrats maxrandb Jan 2025 #7
Mental illness help Blue Full Moon Jan 2025 #8
and was found not to have been homicidal or suicidal. taxi Jan 2025 #10
modern psychiatry is still in the dark ages. mopinko Jan 2025 #11
And then those drugs stop slightlv Jan 2025 #15
Gave me tremors. Took them in the 90s and multigraincracker Jan 2025 #29
I got into it with a mental health person once. OldBaldy1701E Jan 2025 #47
Hopefully he hadn't reproduced yet. Let him be the last of his line. slightlv Jan 2025 #12
He had a new baby jvill Jan 2025 #27
If someone denies suicidal ideation Seinan Sensei Jan 2025 #14
Hollowed-out propaganda zombie. nt The Unmitigated Gall Jan 2025 #16
I'm pretty much not friends anymore Puppyjive Jan 2025 #19
Yes I have seen it. Blue Full Moon Jan 2025 #40
When I was a teenager in the 1970s, our society didn't adulate/worship the military wolfie001 Jan 2025 #22
Was standing in line at the store and guy was talking about multigraincracker Jan 2025 #30
Wow! wolfie001 Jan 2025 #42
Just asking...if someone in our military says Democrats need to be killed, Bluethroughu Jan 2025 #23
Possibly an administrative discharge but not a DD jmowreader Jan 2025 #26
MAGA are a violent people and a clear and present danger to society. nt City Lights Jan 2025 #25
Did an AI write that? Orrex Jan 2025 #31
An awful lot of speculation in this thread. I'm waiting for more actual information. What's the point of speculating Martin68 Jan 2025 #36
"He didn't look the type," means he was blond and handome-looking. Baitball Blogger Jan 2025 #37
So, not a terrorist like Luigi .... hmmmm NotHardly Jan 2025 #41
Impressionable young kids are bombarded with right-wing propaganda from the moment they sign up. hadEnuf Jan 2025 #44
It had the opposite affect on me. Crowman2009 Jan 2025 #46
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