I was thinking about the money vs caring aspect of t the other day when I recalled something a "case manager" said to me years ago. Basically, they are going to get paid regardless of who they work with. If it is not you, it will be someone else. You (and me and everyone else) can choose how far you want to go on this path. For the t, they probably have a cancellation list of folks who would take an appt if one opened up.

Maybe learning about ourselves and managing our MH is like learning about any other subject. If algebra is all the mathematics I ever wanted to learn I could stop at high school math. If I want to learn about calculus, real analysis and abstract algebra, I'd be an undergraduate math majors. If I want to specialize in statistics, I'd go on to get my doctorate degree.

(hope i am making sense and not making things worse)