“When I really needed it, I thought, ‘Why spend so much time trying to get help when it’ll take so long for it to happen?'”

Hearing about wait times and the fact that you sometimes had to wait so long deterred me from reaching out. When I really needed it, I thought, “Why spend so much time trying to get help when it’ll take so long for it to happen?” I didn’t get help until the appointment had to physically be made for me because my mental health had gotten to such a low point. Then, even after I got a therapist, we were constantly playing phone tag. Yale needs to reduce the time between the in-take appointment and your first real appointment to de-stigmatize its mental health services. Yale also needs to make the services more accessible and less complicated to take advantage of.

Anonymous