Mental Health Access in Oregon
Students at the University have to pay $20 per visit to the psychotherapist, for a total of 5 visits, and prescription drugs are not covered. Given how expensive medications are - and medications are often an integral part of treatment - I’m confounded at the rationale for such a mental health “plan”. Five visits aren’t going to cut it, and $20 is a lot for most of us where copays are concerned - let alone for a student on college budget.
When I was in college, I suffered from severe depression, and unfortunately I did not know this (I thought I was acting spoilt, that I was feeling bad for no good reasons, and alternating between sleeping fourteen hours a day and sleeping two or three hours a day was just “normal college stress”). If I had known that I was suffering from depression, however, and I was confronted with this type of a mental health plan, I probably would not have gone for help, because “too expensive” would be my perfect reason to avoid dealing with a serious issue.