I´ve been a patient within our public mental health care for years without getting any proper help. As I can´t pay for therapy and we have no insurance based system I´m forced to attend a public clinic and to see a psychiatric nurse who just makes me feel worse.

I need a sick leave and to see a doctor who can extend that every six months or so. Because of that they demand I see a counsellor and they just pick one for me and for some months I´ve now seen this psychiatric nurse.


I could bear seeing her as long as I had my therapist in church as I´ve talked about in several other posts. But now I only see this nurse and there´s no chemistry, she´s only making me feel worse.

But the dilemma in all this is I can´t get another counsellor. This psychiatric nurse and my psychiatrist are meeting with a psychotherapy center in December to try to refer me to psychotherapy. The referall will most likely not be accepted but I can´t get another counsellor as my psychiatrist are working together with my psychiatric nurse on this referall.

There´s a big risk the referall won´t be accepted and then I´ve waited in vain and also become a lot more depressed. I can´t work so I need the sick leave and it´s too complicated to find another psychiatrist as I already feel very bad.


Does anyone have any thoughts on or consolation in this?