My mental health has been falling apart this semester and every resource the school offers has a waitlist
I attend a uni where tuition and fees cost $52,000 per year. They have a whole web page dedicated to student wellness where the page is decorated with a photograph of a person meditating in sunlight and talks about their dedication towards the mental wellbeing of their students. The one thing they never mentioned on the webpage is that their counseling center is on a waitlist for six weeks now and they divert their call for their crisis line at night to a generic hotline and the therapist allotted specifically to my college has so many patients under her that she actually sent out an email last month stating she would no longer accept new patients until the end of the semester lol.
Its not like im in the biggest crisis and I want to be clear about that because I know how this reads. I'm just a person who has been trying to access a service my tuition is supposed to cover for 8 weeks and keeps hitting walls. I have some money saved up and looked into off campus therapy which runs about $150 a session without insurance and my student insurance covers exactly two sessions a semester which doesn't come close to what anyone would need. The gap between what this school markets and what it delivers when you need something is the most clarifying thing that has happened to me since I got here. I came here thinking the resources were real and didn't need them yet and it turns out they are real in the same way a lot of things at this school are real which is on paper and in the brochure but not on action.