Paul Conti

Which doesn't mean, is it easy?

It might mean, is it hard?

And I leave and I feel like...

emotional for a couple of days, but I see that I'm facing new things.

You know, this process of assessment so that one isn't settling for something that is formulaic, over-packaged.

And I'm not trying to be overly critical of therapists.

I mean, there are people everywhere who do their jobs well and people who don't do their jobs well.

But most therapists are working in systems that push against doing the job well, right?

Because they're rationing care and there's an allotted number of sessions and there's enough time before a person can return.

And so often it's an uphill battle because we're trying to be helped within systems we've created and tolerate that are pushing against helping us.

Sure, right.

I agree completely.

We should not make people swim against such a strong current to get their needs met.

I mean, we see this in such obvious places where an elderly homebound person who can't get their medicine because, oh, there's been some change and they didn't put the new number into the form or Lord knows what.

I mean, it's incredible how we force people to swim against strong currents to get things that are just basic at times for their survival.

And with that in mind, I don't have a lot of respect for where healthcare is at or where mental health is.

is at.

The field that I work in has accepted all sorts of aspects of how things go, someone else controlling how long the interaction can go on, how the interaction is bounded, what can be said and done, what medicines can be prescribed.

There's so many external controls in the systems we work in that we, and I say me included, like all of us in the field,

have let it get to a place where it's obscenely difficult to get help.