Mental health care in the Netherlands is really terrible. I’m surprised you even got 3 sessions without being on a waiting list for months first. I guess you went to a ‘praktijkondersteuner’ at your GP? Those know fuck all and really aren’t any help. I had one literally tell me “usually I help people figure out what’s bothering them and once they know they can solve it, but you already know what’s bothering you, I can’t really help you”. Then I was put on waiting list for months, talked to a different guy for 1 hour, back on another waiting list for months.

At one point I literally called them and asked why it was taking so long (after waiting for months) and they said: oh, we have an opening next week, you can come then. Like, WTF, if you had an opening, why did I only find out after calling when you have a literal list of people waiting for evaluation? In the end I went to a psychologist (one of those ‘Sjakie’ types) for a year or two, which didn’t really help at all. Until they told me they couldn’t do anything more for me.

I get the feeling that if you want real help you need to go to a private practice an pay for everything yourself, which is crazy expensive.

[–] CrowAirbrush@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I'm very bad with names, but our huisarts had a in house guy presumably that praktijkondersteuner and i had a couple talks with him about potential causes of what was causing issues. He noticed me being hyper aware and asked some stuff about my past which led to him sending me to the nearest psychology "clinic" which was covered under insurance but they are operating at "for profit" and will be aiming to get you out of there asap. I was warned about them but they were the only one within reach as we were very limited in travel distance.

I can't really remember what we talked about during those 3 sessions but it was clear that her supervisor took over control as she was the one who very clearly and straightforward told me our sessions would be cut off.

Tbh it sort of felt like i was causing her issues leading to her supervisor having to take over control. It's odd how i can't remember what we talked about but i do remember the feelings that passed during those sessions.