Valérie had limited mental health support because she had to pay out of pocket.
Transcript
Bien là au niveau de la psychologue, il a fallu qu’on y aille… qu’on paie de notre poche parce que le système public ne prend pas en charge les gens comme moi qui sont très malades, qui doivent vivre avec beaucoup d’adaptation, mais qui ne sont pas en dépression. Moi je n’ai pas de diagnostic de dépression, eux autres, ils préfèrent attendre que je finisse en dépression pour me prendre en charge, j’ai encore 2, 3 ans! Fait qu’en tout cas. Fait que finalement, tu sais, il n’y a pas… Et puis comme moi, bien je n’ai pas de salaire, bien c’est très, très difficile financièrement, fait que j’ai fait quelques séances le temps de faire le point. Puis j’aurais aimé ça continuer parce que je l’aimais bien ma psychologue, elle m’aidait, mais en même temps, j’ai quand même la chance d’être prise en charge par une travailleuse sociale de mon GMF, quand même. C’est sûr que ce n’est vraiment pas la même approche, ce n’est pas pareil, elle, elle est plus dans du pratico-pratique, puis plus dans le quotidien, qu’est-ce qu’on peut faire et tout ça. Mais ce n’est pas la même approche, mais je n’ai pas accès au système public au niveau de la psychologie, à cause que je n’ai pas de diagnostic de maladie mentale ou de dépression ou quoique ce soit.
[Well, when it came to the psychologist, we had to go… pay out of pocket because the public system doesn’t take care of people like me who are very sick, who have to live with a lot of adaptation, but who aren’t depressed. I don’t have a diagnosis of depression, but they prefer to wait until I end up depressed before taking care of me. I’ve still got 2 or 3 years! In any case. And as I don’t have a salary, it’s very, very difficult financially, so I did a few sessions just long enough to take stock. And I would have liked to continue because I liked my psychologist, she helped me, but at the same time, I’m lucky enough to be taken care of by a social worker at my GMF. Of course, it’s really not the same approach, it’s not the same, she’s more into the practical, then more into the day-to-day, what can you do and all that. But it’s not the same approach, but I don’t have access to the public psychology system, because I don’t have a diagnosis of mental illness or depression or anything like that.] Translation from the original French.
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