I’m French and I can still relate to this meme immensely. Even with basically free healthcare, depression makes it so asking for medical help (and doing everything they need you to do to be able to help you) requires a ridiculous amount of energy and motivation.
Can’t imagine if I had to pay thousands of dollars on top of that :(
Sweden here, also relatable. I’m very happy to have the support systems I do, but I’m still flirting with poverty and struggling with an underfunded healthcare system.
“You think you have ADHD? Jump through an unreasonable gauntlet of administrative hoops to receive care.” They think everyone’s just lying to get drugs.
“You have depression? Here are some generic treatments. Please try harder to be normal.”
They want to exterminate “abnormal” and “weak” people, simple as that. Why else could someone possibly create so many hoops to jump through just to get basic care to be well? It’s because the nazis are in-charge.
This is also worse if you’re an English speaker in a non-US country. I’ve been trying to help my friend, an expat in Germany, find a specialist for his condition, and finding anyone in his area who doesn’t hang up the phone at the question “do you have English language services” is incredibly frustrating.
Does Germany have any sort of patient translation services? I think that’s available here for many languages, but you may have to qualify for it, not really sure how it works.
I’m French and I can still relate to this meme immensely. Even with basically free healthcare, depression makes it so asking for medical help (and doing everything they need you to do to be able to help you) requires a ridiculous amount of energy and motivation.
Can’t imagine if I had to pay thousands of dollars on top of that :(
Sweden here, also relatable. I’m very happy to have the support systems I do, but I’m still flirting with poverty and struggling with an underfunded healthcare system.
“You think you have ADHD? Jump through an unreasonable gauntlet of administrative hoops to receive care.” They think everyone’s just lying to get drugs.
“You have depression? Here are some generic treatments. Please try harder to be normal.”
They want to exterminate “abnormal” and “weak” people, simple as that. Why else could someone possibly create so many hoops to jump through just to get basic care to be well? It’s because the nazis are in-charge.
This is also worse if you’re an English speaker in a non-US country. I’ve been trying to help my friend, an expat in Germany, find a specialist for his condition, and finding anyone in his area who doesn’t hang up the phone at the question “do you have English language services” is incredibly frustrating.
Does Germany have any sort of patient translation services? I think that’s available here for many languages, but you may have to qualify for it, not really sure how it works.