@ExileGrimm we did Persepolis as one of our texts in my HS english class. was really neat to expand our textual analysis to art and layout. also one of the few works about Being A Teenager that felt like it was about actual experiences and not the aggregate expectations of Teenagerdom
@dazzledhazz the cost of a session in Australia outstrips basically anywhere on this grounds alone, subsidising that is just a further hit to medicare while rewarding a professional guild system that is overly restrictive on new entrants
@dazzledhazz no, the best way to actually make psychiatric help accessible is to reduce the insane, beyond-the-rest-of-the-west rates they charge, and increasing the number of practicing psychs by reducing the barrier to entry is absolutely the best way to do that
@dazzledhazz I don’t care about the amount of study & dedication put in. It’s clearly not resulting in commensurately better outcomes. It’s, instead, keeping psychological help inaccessible, which is their goal, because it earns them more money.
@dazzledhazz yes, that’s the barrier to entry. it’s primarily class positioning that allows someone to dedicate 7 years to that and, when they’re done, to charge people a lot of money. that 7 years of work is because psychologists want to maintain their stranglehold - do you get that