And, if you haven't already realized, the vast majority of mental health practitioners are brainwashed by the MSM and Marxist education. They're not going to help you.
If anything, they'll chalk everything up to a problem with your brain chemistry and play around with antidepressants until they find one you can tolerate and that hopefully gives them the biggest bonus.
Most therapists can't prescribe medication except in five states, and even then they have to be specially trained with an additional graduate degree, which most won't have. Therapists do counseling. Psychiatrists are doctors and can prescribe medication, but in my experience, few of them do much in the way of therapy-style counseling.
Are you insinuating therapists don't refer their patients to psychiatrists when they deem medication is the answer and get a referral bonus in many cases?
A therapist is trained to solve psychological problems using counseling, not medication. Medication is not a solution they are trained to use. They can suggest that a patient try a medication if they want, but their suggestion doesn't legally carry any more weight than your friend suggesting a medication.
A therapist needs to know what medications you're on in case they might be influencing your behavior in some way. Unless they are a prescribing psychologist (very rare), they are not going to be thinking about how to use medication to solve your problem, because that is beyond the scope of authority of the average therapist.
I have never heard of a therapist getting a bonus for referring a patient for medication, because medication would have to come from a doctor. Psychiatric medication can come from literally any doctor. A psychiatrist is not required to get psychiatric meds. A primary care doctor can do it, and in many cases, is the one who is prescribing those meds.
So a therapist can say, "You should try an SSRI," and the result would be that the patient goes to any random doctor and gets the prescription if the doctor agrees that it's appropriate. Since no specific doctor is required for these meds, I can't see how the therapist could get a payout from it.
Except those payouts do happen. The therapists refer their clients to either a doctor or psychiatrist, and often get referral fees for it in states where it's not barred by state law.
Talk to Yashua.
And, if you haven't already realized, the vast majority of mental health practitioners are brainwashed by the MSM and Marxist education. They're not going to help you.
If anything, they'll chalk everything up to a problem with your brain chemistry and play around with antidepressants until they find one you can tolerate and that hopefully gives them the biggest bonus.
Most therapists can't prescribe medication except in five states, and even then they have to be specially trained with an additional graduate degree, which most won't have. Therapists do counseling. Psychiatrists are doctors and can prescribe medication, but in my experience, few of them do much in the way of therapy-style counseling.
Are you insinuating therapists don't refer their patients to psychiatrists when they deem medication is the answer and get a referral bonus in many cases?
Well, not really, no.
A therapist is trained to solve psychological problems using counseling, not medication. Medication is not a solution they are trained to use. They can suggest that a patient try a medication if they want, but their suggestion doesn't legally carry any more weight than your friend suggesting a medication.
A therapist needs to know what medications you're on in case they might be influencing your behavior in some way. Unless they are a prescribing psychologist (very rare), they are not going to be thinking about how to use medication to solve your problem, because that is beyond the scope of authority of the average therapist.
I have never heard of a therapist getting a bonus for referring a patient for medication, because medication would have to come from a doctor. Psychiatric medication can come from literally any doctor. A psychiatrist is not required to get psychiatric meds. A primary care doctor can do it, and in many cases, is the one who is prescribing those meds.
So a therapist can say, "You should try an SSRI," and the result would be that the patient goes to any random doctor and gets the prescription if the doctor agrees that it's appropriate. Since no specific doctor is required for these meds, I can't see how the therapist could get a payout from it.
Except those payouts do happen. The therapists refer their clients to either a doctor or psychiatrist, and often get referral fees for it in states where it's not barred by state law.
https://www.apaservices.org/practice/update/2014/09-25/referral-fees