My guess is that many therapists and psychiatrists suck, are lazy, are experiencing extreme compassion fatigue, and don’t give 2 shits about whether or not their patients get the care they need. It’s a well-known, widespread problem. Care is only as good as the people who give it. A young friend of mine just got his masters in clinival psych, and was absolutely sickened by the way doctors and students spoke of patients like animals or test subjects or walkinh symptoms, and not people. Not only that, but we lost good psychotherapy to HMOs and drugs and talk model in the 80s. mental health care is really, really not great in this country. And that’s a euphemism.
I personally have taken DBT skills classes a few times and have seen a massive difference in how they’re taught and presented. It’s really awful and sad how little society cares about it and how some of the most marginalized members of society are ignored and disenfranchised.
