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Originally Posted by Neptune83
Thank you. I can't believe there's still such a major shortage of long term therapy. Surely they understand that not everyone is going to be ok after x amount of sessions. I know there are a lot of patients to cover, but if there were long term more readily available you might get fewer people in and out of therapy all the time. It would give those in need of more a better chance of getting better longer term with much wider gaps between needing therapy. I emailed someone last night, going to check my mail now to see if she replied.
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a suggestion......here in the USA many insurance plans required a person to have a "cap" (limit) on how many sessions they can have in a year. example my insurance plan used to say I could have 12 mental health sessions a year, I could use those sessions at any rate I needed them to be. if I went weekly that meant I had three months of mental health sessions.
what my therapist and psychiatrist did was as I reached that limit they would file another set of forms listing my diagnosis, a new treatment plan and request form for more sessions. the result was I could see my therapist for 52 sessions a year unlimited on how long I was in treatment.
officially it wasnt unlimited because the treatment plan and request form had to be done every three months, but reality wise we no longer had to worry about whether I needed long term or short term treatment. As long as we met the requirements for getting that extension. As an adult originally I started treatment as a college class requirement that was only supposed to last one semester and it turned into years.
Im not saying you will definitely get an extension like I did just that here in america there are loop holes that can be used by starting out short term and end up in long term treatment.
why not try going for the short term plans while you are researching your mental health system, this way you will be gaining that much more stability, progress that you are aiming for, while at the same time you may find out how to use your mental health system to benefit rather then hindering you.