U. S. Expats Are Revealing The "We're Being Scammed" Realizations They Had After Moving Abroad

[LauraInLA]

147. Agreed on all your points. Re. adolescent psychiatric care/beds...

a family member had serious issues during high school about five years ago. Even with “good” insurance and and FSA/HSA (can never remember which), it still cost thousands of dollars for residential and out-patient care (and many programs were devoted to substance abuse and less adapted for psychiatric issues). Sadly, at the residential program, we were the only family in our cohort who wanted our child to return home — the other families were sending their kids to treatment boarding schools, which also spoke to their wealth or willingness to sue their school districts for access.

Of particular note to me, the Danish founder of the outpatient program told us that the U.S. was more advanced than Europe in terms of adolescent psychiatric care. Assuming you have funds and access, of course, which may have been part of his reason for moving to the U.S. I was still a bit shocked, as I’d assumed that Scandinavian countries especially would be well up on adolescent care.

Happy new year to you and your loved ones!