This will be as “useful” as the current “therapy” on NHS england.
Aka, be linked to a website that is essentially the wikipedia page for CBT but written for people with an iq of 75. Whilst waiting over a year for a single batch of 6 appointments with an overworked therapist that won’t even be able to start understanding your issues before your “allotted time” is up. Then obviously, well, you have had 6 therapy sessions, so obviously every problem you have ever had is now gone and all is right with the world. P.S have fun waiting another year for another 6 appointments with a different therapist.
Absolutely fucking useless.
I am praying it won’t be, and it will actually be useful. But I doubt it.
>There is huge demand for face-to-face services, with people waiting several weeks to see a therapist.
I suppose this is true, if you consider more than 104 weeks “several”.
Consider yourself therapised or ‘treatment resistant’.
Just fucking medicalise/decriminalise weed and psybicilin.
I’ve been through some of these ‘courses’.
“Are you feeling sad? Think about why you’re sad. Recognise you have no reason to be sad.”
Not saying it doesn’t help some people with a single bout of unexpected depression, but for sufferers of proper long term depression, we tend to know that our thinking is negative and counterproductive, but these courses do nothing, because while we can logically follow the steps, it doesn’t actually make an impact.
But yeah, it’s cheaper than funding actual helpful diagnostic and treatment services. And no doubt the government will trumpet the ‘investment’ in services as if it’s a great step forward instead of the real fact of tossing a few quid to someone, after having robbed them of vastly greater sums over multiple years.
I was put on an online anxiety and depression course. It largely consisted of the leaders reading from material they had clearly never looked at before, and Mr Men cartoons.
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This will be as “useful” as the current “therapy” on NHS england.
Aka, be linked to a website that is essentially the wikipedia page for CBT but written for people with an iq of 75. Whilst waiting over a year for a single batch of 6 appointments with an overworked therapist that won’t even be able to start understanding your issues before your “allotted time” is up. Then obviously, well, you have had 6 therapy sessions, so obviously every problem you have ever had is now gone and all is right with the world. P.S have fun waiting another year for another 6 appointments with a different therapist.
Absolutely fucking useless.
I am praying it won’t be, and it will actually be useful. But I doubt it.
>There is huge demand for face-to-face services, with people waiting several weeks to see a therapist.
I suppose this is true, if you consider more than 104 weeks “several”.
Consider yourself therapised or ‘treatment resistant’.
Just fucking medicalise/decriminalise weed and psybicilin.
I’ve been through some of these ‘courses’.
“Are you feeling sad? Think about why you’re sad. Recognise you have no reason to be sad.”
Not saying it doesn’t help some people with a single bout of unexpected depression, but for sufferers of proper long term depression, we tend to know that our thinking is negative and counterproductive, but these courses do nothing, because while we can logically follow the steps, it doesn’t actually make an impact.
But yeah, it’s cheaper than funding actual helpful diagnostic and treatment services. And no doubt the government will trumpet the ‘investment’ in services as if it’s a great step forward instead of the real fact of tossing a few quid to someone, after having robbed them of vastly greater sums over multiple years.
I was put on an online anxiety and depression course. It largely consisted of the leaders reading from material they had clearly never looked at before, and Mr Men cartoons.