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If not everyone can afford proper care, that's a problem that you need to solve in the system that is obviously failing them. Talking therapies already scale j
by krageon 7y ago
If not everyone can afford proper care, that's a problem that you need to solve in the system that is obviously failing them.
Talking therapies already scale just fine, as you say the therapist is paid well and the people that actually need them are a vast minority. If they become the vast majority (where you would actually need to scale), something is systematically wrong somewhere else and that needs to be addressed outside of therapy.
- apatters 7y agoAre they really a vast minority? The statistics here are interesting: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/major-depression.shtml https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/major-depression.... About 17M adult Americans have had one or more major depressive episodes. 35% of them received no treatment at all. That's just the numbers for depression, let alone other disorders. The pills can treat symptoms but they don't resolve the root causes of the disorders. I think there are a lot of people out there who would benefit from more or better treatment but the latent demand greatly outweighs the supply.