Psychiatry?
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Do you have health insurance? If so, your health card typically states if you have mental health and/or chemical dependency benefits. If you have these benefits, then you may be asked to pay a copay of anywhere from $5 to $40 dollars for the visit. If you do not have these benefits, a single session which can be helpful, depending on the nature and extent of your problem, can cost anywhere from $70 to $250 dollars depending on where you live.
Alternatively, the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) can provide you with free and low cost referrals to community clinics where your financial needs are taken into consideration. Please consider following up on your interest, since most communities do have low cost services that can be quite helpful. Check out the link below for more information and good luck to you.
usually it will take more than one session to figure out the problem it may take months
I usually pay about $150 a half hour. I have really found though that this not an area that you want to shop around for the best price. You really will get what you pay for.
Also I highly doubt that a Phys. is going to be able to diagnose you in one visit.
there are many 12 stp groups out there that sometimes help and sometimes dont and plenty of web forums if you are more specific one might be able to point you there, but if you go to the emergency room in a public hospital and tell them you're losing touch or have a mental health crisis, they will give you the proper contacts according to your ability to pay. You might even get a zanex or two:)
There are other people who can diagnose mental illnesses besides a psychiatrist. A psychologist can make a dignoses and so can a clinical social worker. You should contact your insurance carrier and see what they cover. If you don't have insurance go to the nearest big hospital and talk to someone in their mental health department and they should be able to help you get the help that you need and be able to pay for it.
Just becasue some one doesn't have a medical degree or a PH. D after their name does not mean that they are any better with people than a cllinical social worker. I have been in therapy with all of them and it's more the personality of the wether or not they have an advanced degree. An advanced degree should prepare them better but some times that gets in the way of thier clinincial manner. I really like the psychiatrist that I"m with now and I also see a psychologist but they both act like the patient is the most important and not their degree. They beleive that their degrees allow them to help people and that it gives them some insights that they may not other wise have but My sister who's practiced as a social worker might be better help for you than someone right out of school who has no pratcial experince and who thinks that their degree is going to allow them to know everything. There are some things that are better learned by doing and I think that therapy is one of them.
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