Paulina would like someone she could speak to freely but found private counsellors to be unaffordable.

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I:   Do you know how long the wait list is for a counsellor? 

 

LC18:   It’s very, very long because of COVID. Because a lot of people are struggling … I tried to go privately but again it’s – I didn’t realize how expensive it is and I don’t have benefits, my husband doesn’t have benefits anymore either. So that’s totally out of the question …  everybody’s online now right? So it would probably be online. But yeah, I think I did find, like, one person and then their rate was $375 an hour and I was like – yikes. So. I had to politely decline … I really don’t have anyone to talk to. I don’t want to burden anybody like, in my family. And I think they’re kind of like – not annoyed but just tired of hearing of it. Like it is like, every day I’m like, oh I feel so shitty. I think they’re just tired of hearing of it. Not because they don’t care, but because it’s like, OK, yeah, we know. It would be nice to talk to somebody freely.

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