Apologies - one of the very few great things left in UK is the NHS and my diagnosis was free and my prescription is £9/month.

I take sertraline (Zoloft in the US I think) and that is cheap - $20/30 month.

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arpinum a day ago | parent | next [-]

You would pay less than £9 in the USA for 1 month of sertraline.

	▲	gehsty 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Maybe so, but I also cut m finger quite badly on NYD, I went to an urgent care centre had it looked at, x rayed and dressed and some antibiotics. The next day I had an appointment with a consultant and then went in to surgery to have it inspected to see if I had cut the nerves or tendon (thankfully I had not), had it swen up dressed, and a follow up appointment to have the dressings removed and final check. All at no cost. The £9 is for the administration of the prescription - if th drugs are super expensive heart medication or whatever, it would still be £9 (or free). I stand by NHS being the only great thing we have left.

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ge96 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm not even talking medication, talking about cost of therapy it's like $200 per session sometimes but yeah all depends

I had to pay $3K for an MRI in cash one time, which yeah you get what you pay for but my buddy pays $2.8K/mo in insurance for his family, like that's a big chunk of his monthly pay

Oh I want to be clear no snark towards you this is the cliche topic of healthcare in US

Regarding the topic at hand though, yeah I lift 5 days a week and do a half hour of maximum inclined walk for those days as well. Mental health but also I want to be ripped. Helps my job has a gym and I'm the only one in there in the mornings. We also walk like 2 miles at work, in circles around the parking lot, talking to co-workers 4 days a week.

My main problem is anxiety, like I wish I could walk downtown in a city and do street photography but I fear that someone will ask me for money or get robbed. The funny thing is I'm a big guy, like 6', I bench almost 300 lbs. I'm not like a stick. I have a fear of crowds too I can do shopping but sometimes in like a WalMart that's a lot of people and of course I'm terrible with women, the fear even if I have the bod. I'm just scared of eye contact and low self-esteem even having a six-fig job my self-determined value is whether a woman will say yes to me or not, it's funny. I don't have a fear of speed I can drive 160mph+ on the highway, helps to have a good car.

But for the moment I'm working towards freeing myself from debt and then being able to live a life where I'm not in fear of losing my job. I'm a privileged person, this is brought on by myself eg. dropping $1.2K a night at a strip club or $600 Venmoing a band to play song requests. I'm complaining about therapy cost lmao.

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lowdownbutter a day ago | parent | prev [-]

> my diagnosis was free

As long as you don't factor in your taxes.

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dns_snek a day ago | parent [-]

Do you think they're stupid and just don't realize that they pay for it with taxes?

You're not factoring in the most critical piece of financing - the mental burden. You don't want to be stuck figuring out how to get enough money to pay for mental health services when you need them the most. That's when your earning potential is at its lowest, and every minor obstacle to getting help gets magnified ten fold.

That may as well be a death sentence unless you're privileged enough to be able to easily pay for it with savings. Realizing that you need help, figuring out how to access it, and actually following through is hard enough as it is without any added financial burden.

	▲	gehsty 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		For me I think the quality and type of care is different when there’s no profit centre - it’s just people looking after people.