EveHarrington
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I think that once you’re past your 12 sessions you can get your therapist to contact your insurance company to say that you aren’t healed and that further treatment is necessary.
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About the 12 sessions of CPT & 4 left...
There are 2 really useful ways to consider this :
1) You’re learning a skill. Just like if you had 3 months of swimming lessons, at the end of those 3 months no one expects you to be an Olympic swimmer. This is basic instruction, only. It will take years of daily practice, and experience, and learning new skills using the foundation of these basics.
2) The vast majority of people who enter therapy are doing so for very basic problems, for emergency help through a rough patch, or just general good health. So it makes sense from a medical standpoint to lay out a timeline to “teach the curriculum” that covers the most people, and from an insurance standpoint ($$$) to make people reapply if they want (or need) more. Let’s use some made up numbers and say 80% of the population is dealing with basic life stuff (easily sorted), or an emergency (their life itself is very solid, so all they need help with is this one thing). That DOESNT mean that the other 20% “should” also be fine/cured/etc. in the same timeframe. That’s like saying someone who is in the ER after a car wreck “should” only spend 15 minutes there, because most people only spend 15 minutes at their doctors office! It’s 2 totally different timeframes.
- “My kid has the sniffles” doctors appointment (compared to)
- ER/ Trauma Surgeon/ Orthopedic Surgery / Reconstructive Surgery/ Physical Therapy / Occupational Therapy.
- 15 minutes & 1 insurance approval
- Thousands of hours over months and years & dozens of insurance approvals.
Exact same thing with psych.
- Life thing, or major event (compared to)
- A whole gosh darn Disorder.
Being part of the second group? Means a lot more work. A lot more time. A lot more changes to one’s life. A whole helluva lot more doing battle with insurance. Because they’re different classes of things.
There are 2 really useful ways to consider this :
1) You’re learning a skill. Just like if you had 3 months of swimming lessons, at the end of those 3 months no one expects you to be an Olympic swimmer. This is basic instruction, only. It will take years of daily practice, and experience, and learning new skills using the foundation of these basics.
2) The vast majority of people who enter therapy are doing so for very basic problems, for emergency help through a rough patch, or just general good health. So it makes sense from a medical standpoint to lay out a timeline to “teach the curriculum” that covers the most people, and from an insurance standpoint ($$$) to make people reapply if they want (or need) more. Let’s use some made up numbers and say 80% of the population is dealing with basic life stuff (easily sorted), or an emergency (their life itself is very solid, so all they need help with is this one thing). That DOESNT mean that the other 20% “should” also be fine/cured/etc. in the same timeframe. That’s like saying someone who is in the ER after a car wreck “should” only spend 15 minutes there, because most people only spend 15 minutes at their doctors office! It’s 2 totally different timeframes.
- “My kid has the sniffles” doctors appointment (compared to)
- ER/ Trauma Surgeon/ Orthopedic Surgery / Reconstructive Surgery/ Physical Therapy / Occupational Therapy.
- 15 minutes & 1 insurance approval
- Thousands of hours over months and years & dozens of insurance approvals.
Exact same thing with psych.
- Life thing, or major event (compared to)
- A whole gosh darn Disorder.
Being part of the second group? Means a lot more work. A lot more time. A lot more changes to one’s life. A whole helluva lot more doing battle with insurance. Because they’re different classes of things.
Innordinate
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glad I'm not the only one......
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WAgirl
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Thanks for the help everyone, I'm grateful. This week for some reason has been particularly rough so trusting my own thoughts right now...not great.
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You might ask your T if there is a group therapy, in your area that you could participate in outside of counseling when your pain coverage is done. The YWCA, if in or close to a larger city, usually offers support groups for women who have suffered abuses. My friend took advantage to these and it really helped her. There may be other low-cost or no cost groups that would meet your need. Ask. It might be a good alternative for you.
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