The psyches that did accept insurance had wait times with March being the soonest.
A stark, stark contrast to seeing a cardiologist, for example. The shortage of mental health professionals is real.
Why do we not take mental health more seriously?
A psychologist can diagnose your with mental illnesses and help you via therapy and testing.
Very different. A psychiatrist makes significantly more than a psychologist and needs to go to actual med school, do residency and so on.
My pet theory as to why not is how it's less profitable usually than 15m doctor visits or large do-or-die surgeries and is more objective than once a week 1 hr therapy sessions, thus easier to make money as a professional from insurance providers.
The mentally ill also have a harder time holding a job and so the ones that need it the most are often the ones most ignored for it, while the ones who need physical medicine the most are old and have retirements to suck out.