"bulk billing" here means the government pays for it - its paid on Medicare. The Ts and psychiatrists that bulk bill are just as qualified, it's just that they are overworked and a lot of them have a huge caseload and are burnt out. Not all of them ofcourse but that is the general consensus around here. They have a lootttttt of clients to help but there aren't enough of them (the Ts and pdocs). The one I saw was linked to one of the public hospitals here in their recovery team. For some reason the government isn't willing to spend more money on hiring more psych people to assist these people, so the existing psych people have a huge caseload. The T i had didnt seem burnt out but I guess you can never tell.

The reason I won't be continuing seeing this T is because she revealed last week that she believes I have a bad attitude, and that I only have myself to blame for not being able to shower/leave the house/ wash my clothes/etc, that i don't want to work, that i only have myself to blame for being mentally ill. And that if I could get up off my ***** and stop being lazy I would be able to do these things quite easily. That sort of thing. To me, that is unacceptable not to mention unprofessional.