02/28/2026
I need to vent.... 🤬.
I take mental health seriously. Unfortunately, some people don't and what is happening over & over again is "business-people," who have absolutely no medical or psychiatric training whatsoever, are opening psych practices all over the place, making a quick buck, then shutting everything down just to move on to the next business venture! What they don't realize, and definitely do not care about is, they are leaving providers & patients high and dry and left with nothing!!!!! Compassionate, qualified, providers left scrounging for jobs with little to no notice, patients who worked so hard to get stable are now forced to find a new practice, new provider, placed on a waiting list, and go without medication refills! THIS IS NOT OK!!!! 99.9% of Psych providers actually care about their patients and would never abandon their patients! I am one of those providers. I care. I am in it for the long haul. These "franchise-pop-up" psych practices need to STOP! That is not appropriate care for mental health patients.
Why do I say this? Because I have been employed by 3 psych practices that hired me, promised me and my patients the world, then closed suddenly, giving the providers and patients HOURS notice (some patients didn't get notice at all) to start all over again! All 3 practices run by "business-people," not medical or psych providers. Just sayin'.
Ps: I'm not bashing "business-people." I think it's perfectly ok to sell your product etc. Whether it's beauty labs, cookies, whatever, I support that. Do you really want your mental health run the same way as your local pop-up? I think mental health treatment is more serious than that. Your local Crumbl Cookie can close down tomorrow, sure you will be devastated, but you will survive. If the mental health practice you've been going to suddenly closes down, and you no longer have access to your provider and medications, (yes! that actually happens), that's a big deal, and tragically some don't survive. Think about that....
FACT: it is extremely hard for some mental health patients to constantly have to repeat their story over & over again because their provider keeps changing.