I’m tired of hearing people talk like stigma or shame is the main reason people don’t get help. The truth is, most of us can’t fucking afford it. Even after insurance covers some of it, the rest of the cost for just 2 therapy sessions a month is just too prohibitively expensive, literally what many people pay for groceries or heat for an entire month. And many of us have bad insurance plans that don’t cover it at all, or only cover the lowest quality therapists that only waste our time or make things worse. I’ve seen quite a few of those, just because they were all my insurance covered. Most of them were so bad, I was better off not seeing anybody.