Interesting parts:
🔵Not all of them are in therapy (HOW?!)
🔵Teleheath=harder to connect(we need to do more studies of telehealth & burnout in therapy)cough @ColinWestMDPhD
🔵LOTS of GUILT for not being able to give patients answers & having to turn folks away (I GET this)
"I became numb,&then I became overwhelmed, & then I kind of went back to numb." OOF. THIS QUOTE.

For me:I have struggled w/naming my own feelings as burnout(or valid!),feeling like I wish I had something to say to help(it is death/a pandemic-I don't),& relating too much to all
THIS IS NOT GOING TO IMPROVE- IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE:
🔵More requests and NEED (post pandemic mental health will be finally assessed, PTSD from COVID itself & caregiving, ALL OF 2020/21)
🔵Old requests- revisited (people wanna go back!)
🔵Need to be seen MORE often(higher acuity)
A therapist said: "We're helpers, we want to help everyone, we don't want to turn people away...so it's really hard to say, 'No, I can't fit anyone else in.' Or 'I can't help financially.'"

This leads to therapists taking more cases even at capacity & burnout & SUPER-WAIT LISTS
BUT WAIT LISTS AREN'T THE THERAPISTS FAULT,THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN.

Therapists should not be expected to burn out,take over capacity,&take pro bono cases when they can't afford it to fix it.

AND Patients shouldn't be left untreated

DO SOMETHING. THIS ISN'T NEW. IT IS JUST WORSE.
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