Huh.<p>Maybe. But then again, as for the former:<p>> <i>If I could convince anyone to do anything in particular, it would at least include therapy and budgeting.</i><p>I wonder what are the places on Earth when anyone can take you up on that recommendation if they actually need it. A half-decent therapy is a sustained process of regular meetings (typically every week of two), but it requires finding a "patient-therapist fit" first, which can easily take half a year of sessions with different people. Now here in Poland, the public health service (= free) has approximately no spots open at any given time, so enjoy more months in a queue; on the private side, a therapist will charge you per hour about as much as you'd earn hourly (take-home) as a principal developer in a corporation, so...<p>... if you really need therapy, and an hour a week is nowhere near sufficient to make progress, you can hardly afford it <i>on a top tech salary</i>. I can't imagine how regular people with normal salaries could ever think of trying. It's not like anyone's offering mortgage but for mental health.<p>Wonder how things are elsewhere, but if the general distribution of costs of labor around the world hold, I imagine it's <i>even worse</i> in the US, or anywhere in Europe to the west of Poland.
Brief, but to the point. Thanks for posting.<p>I have tons of therapy experience (as a client) and value it. My budgeting could be way better, and I do see the parallel there, actually.