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How does one conquer the seeming impossibility of actually getting a therapist?

I know what resources are available to me (in that I have access to Psychology Today and a list of therapists my insurance would cover, which are not the same list and requires manual cross-indexing). However there are still hundreds of therapists with all sorts of different qualifications. Dealing with that amount of information and choice is incredibly overwhelming, attempting to go through the lists is exhausting, on like... a deep level. It doesn't help that I'm possibly depressed - so motivation is difficult - and one of the problems I want to look seriously into is whether I have ADHD, and if I do, this sort of task is exactly what I am least suited to successfully accomplish by myself. I also feel way, way too emotionally attached/involved/something to each attempt to contact a therapist - I'd tried it twice, and never got a response, and it was acutely painful in a way I am having real trouble facing again. But I can't ask other people to 'find a therapist for me.' What am I supposed to do? It's been many months

The problem with discussing the risks controversial topics like vaccines, when such risks are the sort that are minimal/par for the course in the process of science/not in any way outstanding, is that it keeps the topic from ever being settled, perpetually arming opposition to the vaccine (when the evidence just isn't there for such opposition) 'because it's still being discussed.' There's no consensus. This approach has been deliberately used in the past to keep topics such as evolution, climate change, and even smoking dangers, from being settled, thereby enabling irrational opposition groups, by repeatedly and loudly bringing up minutia that can't be definitively settled in the interests of 'transparency' and 'just talking about concerns that have been raised, why would you refuse to talk about it?' Making a big deal of minor concerns can and will fuel anti-vaxxers. Choosing to discuss them loudly in public isn't a minor, reasonable course of action - it's one with very real consequences. And right now? That's just not worth it.

Hi, thanks for the response!

Last time I tried this (after 5 months of unsuccessfully trying, or more accurately not successfully trying, to find someone by myself), I got a sort of 'Yeah you should look into that, find a therapist, here's links to psychologytoday' type of response. Eventually I ended up on a waitlist for some sort of in-house counseling thing that explicitly doesn't screen for ADHD, and the waitlist is another 5 months long. Your comment is motivating me to try to ask, like, more harder, cos I was having real doubts that this is a real thing a doctor is supposed to be helping with, so thank you! And the 'getting started is better than perfect' idea is helping me accept that even being on a 5-month-long waitlist is at least something, so thanks for that as well.

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