This/I do not feel fine, but at least there’s troll coping to fill the void.

Edit: after venting to a friend about this during an anxiety attack, she gave me contact information to an office that was able to schedule me for next month. I feel very fortunate and relieved. I’m also extremely appreciative of not just her, but all of you! This is a wonderfully supportive community, you’re all amazing people

  • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    6 days ago

    My wife recently got an appointment after trying to reach the psychiatrist for nearly 2 months due to ridiculous phone hours (9-11am, once per week…like WTF!?)…it’s in 72 weeks.

    • just some guy@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      I kept running into that too. Every psychologist my psychiatrist referred me to had similar hardly accessible hours. I hope she’s got an appointment now and the psychiatrist is a good one

    • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      When I signed up with my psychiatrist the wait was 72 weeks.

      I just looked it up, and the same psychiatrist now has a wait of 304 weeks! If I limit my search to psychiatrists within 50km, as the crow flies, basically about an hours drive, I have 6 psychiatrists "available. Their self reported wait periods ranges from 159 to 700 weeks. 700 fucking weeks! The 700 weeks is probably a case of “sorry, you’ll have to wait 14 years, because I’m not allowed to take in more patients, or pay for the eval yourself”, but the average for the 5 fastest is still 226 weeks.

      I don’t know where you’re at, but my username gives me away - I just don’t want to fuel the American “socialized health care is ineffective” bonfire by making it too obvious.