What mental health resources? My aunt has such crippling anxiety she can barely get out of bed a couple times a week, and all she can get from both Medicare & Medicaid, while living in a care facility, is a Lexapro scrip, an hour with a social worker every 2 weeks, and a 5 minute checkup with a traveling psychiatrist every other month or so.

Everywhere you go, it's "We can't put you on the sliding scale if you have no proof of income; apply for Medicaid". Then when you're on Medicaid, "We're not accepting any new Medicaid patients at this time" - or ever, apparently. If you ever get to see the sliding scale, it bottoms out at $45 a session, and they want you to go 2x a week? A f***ing drinking habit is cheaper...

Oh, they mean suicide hotlines. Sure. Don't kill yourself, peon. Someone has to answer the phones and open the stores on Monday, after all, or people might get upset...

Seriously, though, nobody take this as against hotlines or talking people down from self-harm. That's a universal good. Don't accept a permanent solution to a temporary problem and all that. I just find the state of behavioral health services laughable.