If you are looking for professional help with mental health in the US in 2023, good luck. I got 10 referrals to psychiatric nurse practitioners from my primary care physician, all of them were not...
If you are looking for professional help with mental health in the US in 2023, good luck.
I got 10 referrals to psychiatric nurse practitioners from my primary care physician, all of them were not taking new patients, not answering the phone, or otherwise unavailable.
All were women. If a man felt more comfortable talking about his problems with another man that is almost inconceivable today.
I believe I have a chronic condition that affects about 5% of people and if I look at psychiatric evaluations I've had from childhood to the present and mark signs of this condition with a magic marker most of the document is yellow, particularly the first paragraph. Not one professional caught on to this. Even people commenting on my comments on Hacker News point out these signs, to me they are like rays of sunlight passing through holes in the cloud, to everyone else (and even me a year ago) they are just random. My condition sounds pretty terrifying and I'm fairly certain a machine learning model could be trained to identify it from my comments which could well target me for not getting loans, jobs, etc.,
There is a huge amount of autism and ADHD "awareness" however because of commercial considerations. It's understood that autistic children can receive a large amount of expensive support which of course creates a feedback loop to diagnose it. (And thus a "thundering herd" of people who self-diagnose autism) Treatment of ADHD is all about prescribing habit-forming drugs of abuse that are highly in demand.
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If you are looking for professional help with mental health in the US in 2023, good luck.
I got 10 referrals to psychiatric nurse practitioners from my primary care physician, all of them were not taking new patients, not answering the phone, or otherwise unavailable.
All were women. If a man felt more comfortable talking about his problems with another man that is almost inconceivable today.
I believe I have a chronic condition that affects about 5% of people and if I look at psychiatric evaluations I've had from childhood to the present and mark signs of this condition with a magic marker most of the document is yellow, particularly the first paragraph. Not one professional caught on to this. Even people commenting on my comments on Hacker News point out these signs, to me they are like rays of sunlight passing through holes in the cloud, to everyone else (and even me a year ago) they are just random. My condition sounds pretty terrifying and I'm fairly certain a machine learning model could be trained to identify it from my comments which could well target me for not getting loans, jobs, etc.,
There is a huge amount of autism and ADHD "awareness" however because of commercial considerations. It's understood that autistic children can receive a large amount of expensive support which of course creates a feedback loop to diagnose it. (And thus a "thundering herd" of people who self-diagnose autism) Treatment of ADHD is all about prescribing habit-forming drugs of abuse that are highly in demand.