People talk online for a long time before meeting in person, and how a person talks online is not what they are like in real life, adding to the feeling of exhaustion. I personally also don’t feel like someone should have to deal with my depression. I’m not in a great place, and someone else should not have to have their life brought down because they are dating me. I’ve been alone longer than the depression, I can live with it.
Depression must be particularly bad in backward nations that don’t have universal health care. In the rest of the world therapy is free. Medications might not be covered, but their prices are regulated.
Therapy isn’t always free in countries with Universal Healthcare. In fact, mental health in at least two countries I can think of with UHC really don’t put much of a priority on it, so to get anyone decent (or who is accepting new patients or doesn’t have a massive waiting list) you have to pay out of pocket for it. Sometimes, work health insurance perks will cover it, but most of the time, they only cover up to a cap, which typically works out to about 8 sessions per year. From experience, 8 sessions is just about enough time to get past the surface stuff and just start to dig, and then you have to stop. It’s BS.
People talk online for a long time before meeting in person, and how a person talks online is not what they are like in real life, adding to the feeling of exhaustion. I personally also don’t feel like someone should have to deal with my depression. I’m not in a great place, and someone else should not have to have their life brought down because they are dating me. I’ve been alone longer than the depression, I can live with it.
Depression must be particularly bad in backward nations that don’t have universal health care. In the rest of the world therapy is free. Medications might not be covered, but their prices are regulated.
Therapy isn’t always free in countries with Universal Healthcare. In fact, mental health in at least two countries I can think of with UHC really don’t put much of a priority on it, so to get anyone decent (or who is accepting new patients or doesn’t have a massive waiting list) you have to pay out of pocket for it. Sometimes, work health insurance perks will cover it, but most of the time, they only cover up to a cap, which typically works out to about 8 sessions per year. From experience, 8 sessions is just about enough time to get past the surface stuff and just start to dig, and then you have to stop. It’s BS.