IMO, A large number of mental health professionals simply aren’t a good fit for high intelligence people having philosophical crises. People know this and intuitively avoid the large hassle and expense of sorting through a large number of bad matches. Finding solid people to refer to who are not otherwise associated with the community in any way would be helpful.
I know someone who may be able to help with finding good mental health professionals for those situations; anyone who’s reading this is welcome to PM me for contact info.
I don’t know how good it is yet. I just emailed them last week, and we set up an appointment for this upcoming Wednesday. I might report back later, as things progress.
Unfortunately, by participating in this community (LW/etc.), we’ve disqualified ourselves from asking Scott to be our doctor (should I call him “Dr. Alexander” when talking about him-as-a-medical-professional while using his alias when he’s not in a clinical environment?).
I concur with your comment about having trouble finding a good doctor for people like us. p(find a good doctor) is already low and difficult given the small n (also known as the doctor shortage). If you combine p(doctor works well with people like us), the result may rapidly approach epsilon.
IMO, A large number of mental health professionals simply aren’t a good fit for high intelligence people having philosophical crises. People know this and intuitively avoid the large hassle and expense of sorting through a large number of bad matches. Finding solid people to refer to who are not otherwise associated with the community in any way would be helpful.
I know someone who may be able to help with finding good mental health professionals for those situations; anyone who’s reading this is welcome to PM me for contact info.
There’s an “EA Mental Health Navigator” now to help people connect to the right care.
https://eamentalhealth.wixsite.com/navigator
I don’t know how good it is yet. I just emailed them last week, and we set up an appointment for this upcoming Wednesday. I might report back later, as things progress.
Unfortunately, by participating in this community (LW/etc.), we’ve disqualified ourselves from asking Scott to be our doctor (should I call him “Dr. Alexander” when talking about him-as-a-medical-professional while using his alias when he’s not in a clinical environment?).
I concur with your comment about having trouble finding a good doctor for people like us. p(find a good doctor) is already low and difficult given the small n (also known as the doctor shortage). If you combine p(doctor works well with people like us), the result may rapidly approach epsilon.
It seems that the best advice is to make n bigger by seeking care in a place with a large per capita population of the doctors you need. For example, by combining https://nccd.cdc.gov/CKD/detail.aspx?Qnum=Q600 with the US Census ACS 2013 population estimates (https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?t=Counts,%20Estimates,%20and%20Projections%3APopulation%20Total&g=0100000US%240400000&y=2013&tid=ACSDT1Y2013.B01003&hidePreview=true&tp=true), we see that the following states had >=0.9 primary care doctors per 1,000 people:
District of Columbia (1.4)
Vermont (1.1)
Massachusetts (1.0)
Maryland (0.9)
Minnesota (0.9)
Rhode Island (0.9)
New York (0.9)
Connecticut (0.9)