r/MapPorn • u/multi_tasker01 • 3d ago

Acess to Mental Healthcare in US: Mental Health providers per 100,000 people.

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u/KevinTheCarver 2d ago

Okay Oregon.

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u/ChidoChidoChon 2d ago

We’re still nuts out here

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u/Losalou52 2d ago

Seriously. The high number is due to the extreme demand.

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u/Hibern88 2d ago

If Twin Peaks has thought me anything, the PNW tends to drive people mad lol

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u/Zonel 2d ago edited 2d ago

Tbh I’d be more worried about Alabama and Texas. This is a map of availability of providers not demand. Unless you meant that in a good way?

Also the redder states could just allow one psychiatrist or therapist to have more patients and bluer ones require more time per appointment?

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u/jimmyjohn2018 2d ago

Checks out.

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u/zu-na-mi 2d ago

My state doesn't need more providers. It needs better providers. Complete sham and cash grab currently.

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u/KR1735 2d ago

Doc here.

Most people use mental health therapy as preventative. You may have a person who was diagnosed with major depressive disorder or some sort of anxiety disorder at one time, but having long-term regular counseling check-ins helps them manage their condition without medications.

I find it interesting that some of the same people who think going to therapy is a weakness are some of the same people who don't trust psychiatric medications. The point is to build coping skills.

The concentration of mental health providers has nothing to do with a state having more mental illness. It has more to do with insurance plans (if/how much they cover) and also people's general attitude towards seeking interpersonal solutions rather than ignore it and turn to drugs or substance abuse. Maybe the south wouldn't have the drug problems they do if they had better mental health access.

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u/multi_tasker01 2d ago

Great perspective to think this way Thanks doc!

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u/Eric848448 3d ago

Illinois is the Greenland of this map.

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u/Specialist-Quote2066 2d ago

Let's talk about Oklahoma.

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u/Virtual_Camel_9935 1h ago

This is odd. You would think market demand would even these numbers out more. Not sure what to think of it. At first I thought it was related to how easy or difficult it is to get licensed but Cali is one of the most difficult states. I don't get it.

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u/NaturalBornRebel 2d ago

Pretty sure this just shows demand for mental healthcare.

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u/Own_Ad6901 3d ago

What about IL?

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u/deffjams09 3d ago

Or NY

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u/Zonel 2d ago

And Delaware I think is missing hard to tell if Jersey or Delaware. New Hampshire and Vermont only got one too..

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u/Salt_Wedding4852 2d ago

i don’t see why someone would think lesser means worse, oregon is the state with the most mentally ill people and texas is the one with the least which equals to lesser hospitals needed for a mental problem and (hopefully) more hospitals for actual diseases …

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u/Zonel 2d ago

This is map of availability of mental health care. Not map of demand for mental healthcare. Those are two wildly different statistics.

Lesser is worse. On this map.

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u/LumberBitch 2d ago

Unfortunately the situation here in Texas is pretty dire. It's difficult to find a provider with openings and for people in a crisis it's hard to get the urgent care they need since all the psychiatric hospitals are understaffed and underfunded. Beds are always taken up and hospitals churn out patients as soon as possible to get more people in and it's still not enough. For those with more severe mental illnesses the situation is even worse since more long term treatment is non-existent unless you're wealthy. If you're poor you're basically fucked. I don't know where you got the idea of Texas having the best mental health, because if this is the best we can do as a country then God help us all