#sorry to ramble but h i just find these companies unethical more often than not

[iovealexivs]

If I may, Cerebral is Better Help’s just as evil sponsorship twin. Only it may actually be more dangerous because of their ability to prescribe medication while treating you as a customer, not a patient.

I was drawn in at a time I had no health insurance but their prices rose to the point it wasn’t that affordable anymore. So in that sense I felt taken advantage of when I’m already down, mentally.

The medications wouldn’t work and when I tried to talk to a provider about concerns to my health I was ghosted. I had a therapist ghost me at a time she knew I was struggling and like god imagine how shitty it is when everyone in your life at that point abandons you, even your therapist. The care councilors I worked with (different from their therapists, supposedly, though I felt no difference between either service tbh) tried their best genuinely but they were not equipped to handle more than the most basic of anxiety and the most palatable of depression symptoms. And this sucks, because they advertised treatment options for PTSD and ADHD specifically (which are things that cripple me at times), as well as other conditions like Bipolar Depression and so on.

Not to mention security breaches with their userbase’s medical records. They can send apologize emails all they want and say they won’t do it again but they should have never done that to begin with.

It’s hard for people like me (disabled in whatever way) to actually be taken seriously so to be treated as nothing more than just some source of data or customer rather than a patient is indescribably disgusting.

In general, I am wary of any kind of subscription based, online health service. This sucks, because I am disabled and leaving the house to go to a doctors office isn’t always convenient, if it’s even possible. I’ve had so many experiences soured from the business I just mentioned amongst some others that it just makes me all the more reluctant to get help. If I can encourage people to really consider the select pros vs many cons here I will.

Fundamental life advice: never trust a product from a youtuber/influencer sponsorship