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PaperclipPerfector  17d ago (text post)   2701 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for September 29, 2024

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How interested would you be in an effortpost about the (horrendous) state of public mental health care in one of the worst states in the USA as told from the perspective of someone with 25+ years of employment experience in the field? I love it whenever Scott (PBUH) posts on these things and I find that it just whets my appetite to talk about it more but maybe that's just my inner geek coming out and that wouldn't be as interesting to most Mottizens. Regardless, it seems like a promising thing to post about and if there's significant interest then I'd be happy to do it but fair warning: it wouldn't be pretty and there would be lots of references to Moloch and not being able to have Nice Things.

Please, do this!

Adding to the eager cacophony. I am especially interested in longitudinal controlled comparatives on a definitional level, since my own private biases are that treatment has advanced incrementally, but diagnostic precision has degraded. Every time a lefty youtuber fellates BetterHelp as a therapy tool I cannot help but suspect a combination of pathologizing and subconscious repetition of therapyspeak is contributing to the 'mental health crisis' more than any incidence of mentally traumatizing events.

Would love to know more from those in the trenches, even if my biases are proven wrong.

Yes please!

Thanks for the feedback, everyone, you've convinced me to write the post. October is a busy month for me so it may not be ready anytime in the next week but still, coming soon!

@AvocadoPanic, when I used the word horrendous I was thinking in terms of money spent versus the quality of the outcomes, not necessarily any other state or country.

I suspect it's horrendous in an absolute sense and average, maybe low average in a peer group sense.

Adding to the pile - please do, it would be awesome.

I think it would go down well and I'm always keen to read first hand accounts of peoples day jobs.

Though I'd ask horrendous compared to what, horrendous compared to someplace that actually exists in current year?

The Motte loves long form posts about niche interests, I'm sure it would go down very well.

I'll commit to reading it in full unless the writing is terrible with a high likelihood of at least upvoting, a decent chance of engaging further, and a non-trivial chance of sharing anecdotes with friends in conversation if it's compelling.

I work in healthcare and would love this!

I think this sounds like the sort of thing that would do very well here. I’d certainly be interested in it.

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