durda_dan
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my ocd was rather hard this week, i don't want medicine, But i do want a theripist, and i am going to go back to canada soon, so i didn't want to look for a theripist in china because i would be gone soon. well anyway.
i went scouring the internet for theripists where i am, and all of shanghai has under 100 theripists. a city of 20 million has 100 theripists. Now thats low enough
But most of them don't speak english
brings down the number to about 40
then the ones who can speak english never went to a proper medical therepy school because mental health isn't taken seriously in china.
brings the number down to about 5
and the remaining ones who have proper training, and are able to help and deal with the problem all work at one hospital
the next problem is that you need medical insurance *which is virtually inexistant in china * and i don't have it, and even with insurance a general consoltation before the doctors will even bother to look at you, costs 2600 RMB which is just under half of my monthly pay, and every visit after that is even more. which means i have no money to see a therepist, it's basicly not going to happen.
now i am a little depressed.
there are some psychologists at the church in shanghai that volunteer. but i don't know if they could help me as much as i would need.
i went scouring the internet for theripists where i am, and all of shanghai has under 100 theripists. a city of 20 million has 100 theripists. Now thats low enough
But most of them don't speak english
brings down the number to about 40
then the ones who can speak english never went to a proper medical therepy school because mental health isn't taken seriously in china.
brings the number down to about 5
and the remaining ones who have proper training, and are able to help and deal with the problem all work at one hospital
the next problem is that you need medical insurance *which is virtually inexistant in china * and i don't have it, and even with insurance a general consoltation before the doctors will even bother to look at you, costs 2600 RMB which is just under half of my monthly pay, and every visit after that is even more. which means i have no money to see a therepist, it's basicly not going to happen.
now i am a little depressed.
there are some psychologists at the church in shanghai that volunteer. but i don't know if they could help me as much as i would need.
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