@brirightback a therapist I know makes 170 to 200$ per 30-60 minute session, the argument that her work is hard is kinda downplayed by the fact that if she's ever uncomfotable even a bit she'll put you in crisis (you stay in the bulding and promise you're not a danger to yourself or anyone else and are given a crisis packet which is just numbers to call, most people just lie at that point about how they feel)
I have ZERO respect for the idea that she deserves to make 200$ an hour sitting on her αss ruining kid's lives and funnuling everything they say back to the parents on the idea that it's for safety reasons when it's something like telling a kid's parents they are gay (the parent's are homophobic and that info being shared with parents harms the kid) and then not seeing them whenever something serious comes up and just puts kid's in crisis or sends them to psych hospitals.
(in my region psych hospitals are nothing more than small rooms with next to nothing in them where the most horrific abuses of children you can imagine transpire.)
where as, a nurse making next to nothing being more of a therapist to people than the actual therapist's and doing some of the grossest things ever working 12+ hour shifts is making hardly anything and can barely pay rent.
i've spent time in a ICU, those nurses are working so hard and doing more than actual therapists do and them getting payed so little pisses me tf off. the nurses deserve that money, not the shrinks.
one thing I hate about capitalisum is that prices and pay for work is made-up bullshit and doesn't ever reflect the person's job, it seems like the people doing the least end up being payed the most.
