Sing, it is not always easy. We can get more appointments and more stick with the same doctor if we are in the beginning of a severe mental illness and if we are young. If we are not in for med changes we don't really get top priority and also if we are a bit older there is not the same effort since we might not be able to pay back to society and have to be on disability.

I am lucky to have been a patient from before the most severe cutbacks, because they made it impossible to get to a psychiatrist if you didn't have something like bipolar type 1 or schizophrenia. The clinic I go to, most patients are really psychotic. If you "only" have depression or anxiety no matter how bad it gets really, you get a GP. GP's are more plentiful but they also move around a heck of a lot. So it is the same problem there, different docs a lot.

We have a health care in a deep crisis. Mental health gets cut first. They are cutting in the somatic care as well. Just a decade ago we didn't have much waiting lists, they finally got dealt with but now we are back to very long waiting lists. Like I waited 6 months to have my thyroid tested and one year to be tested for lupus. Hip replacement is average a waiting list of 2 years and I can't imagine the pain those patients must be in waiting so long.