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Bruh. My work was sending emails about ‘an exciting new benefit!’ Which is… some form of mental health counseling. I’d it bad that I’m immediately distrustful? I don’t want work being anywhere near my discussions with a mental health provider… not to mention, it’s probably geared towards making everyone just stable enough to keep making money for the rich fucks, and not really helping.
I would ask how I became so jaded, but, well, learned experience
It’s probably an EAP which essentially means they pay for a small handful of sessions (4-10 typically) outside of whatever your copay/deductible burden is (though if you have a deductible the EAP almost never applies towards it fyi). Provider network is also more limited because reimbursement is much smaller. Once the sessions have run out you’re back to figuring out how to afford it on your own. If you have a high deductible that you never meet then you’re in the same issue that you had before a month and a half of sessions that probably didn’t miraculously fix all your problems.
EAP actually gives employers less access to data than health insurance but they can still see aggregate, eg “30% of employees used EAP benefit and most common categories of concern were anxiety and stress management” (wrt all employees, not any specific one). This is obviously more of a concern if you work at a company with 10 employees and the report comes back saying 10% of employees…, obviously that’s easily de anonymized
Whereas with the health insurance benefit the employer can see icd codes utilized within the claim system sometimes depending on the situation but again broadly and not like “your” chart or claims data. All this obviously goes out the window if you sign a release for them to advocate to the insurer or a provider on your behalf of course, and then they might get all kinds of record access
Eww. Yet another reason why tying health insurance to employment is a horrible idea.
I just wanna say I appreciate you taking the time to type all this out to speak directly to someone's anxieties from a place of knowledge about how the area of concern works. Thats pretty cool :)
Indeed! I just have vague feelings of distrust of employers, the healthcare system, etc, but it’s nice to understand it a bit more!
Totally valid! Regardless of how you decide to navigate things I hope the choice serves you well :)
Have a good one!
My work gave everyone a wristband and sent us all an email advising us to listen to those who are having issues. Because I'm qualified for to give mental health advice...
Mental health needs a big reform in North America, unsure if it's dealt better with in the EU (appears to be) but sure as hell is rarely considered here.
Like we're all expected to be mindless cogs in a machine. It's awful. If only there were better solutions.... And yes I know there are but not acknowledged around these parts.
Nah just let people crank out children with abandon, by odds enough of them will work right?