Recognise your situation
Most people do not look for help under "social support" or "mental health care". They search for what they themselves feel and go through. On this page you find it from that side: by topic and condition, how people get stuck in the care system, and the pattern behind it.
Zorgfuik has two entrances. At Where it breaks you look at the system: mental health care, the municipality, benefits agencies, and where things go wrong there. Here you look at the person: your condition, your situation, your story.
Many of these pages come from lived experience. They do not give medical advice, but show where people get stuck, what the journey can look like, and what direction you can ask for. Do not recognise your situation straight away? Then you can always share your experience directly.
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🫀 ACNES & unexplained abdominal pain
Jabs next to the navel, pain radiating to the side or back, and tests that find nothing. Abdominal wall pain is often missed for years.
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🧠 ADHD later in life
Only receiving a diagnosis at forty. When several clinicians treat separate diagnoses without coordinating, a care trap can develop.
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🍽️ Gastric bypass surgery
Weight loss may come with risks, from gallstones to altered medication absorption, that are not always fully discussed.
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⚡ Migraine
About two million people in the Netherlands live with migraine, while only a fraction receive appropriate care.
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💀 IBS (irritable bowel syndrome)
Roughly one in ten people are affected. Shame and uncertainty can delay the first conversation about symptoms.
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🌹 Endometriosis
Diagnosis is often delayed for years when severe menstrual pain is normalised or symptoms are considered separately.
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🧙 Fibromyalgia
Persistent widespread pain and fatigue can be disabling even when routine tests do not provide a simple explanation.
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⚡ PTSD & complex PTSD
Evidence-based treatments exist, but access, recognition and continuity of trauma care remain uneven.
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🎭 Autism in women
Masking and different presentations can lead to autism being missed or mistaken for another condition.
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🎭 Autism in men
Some are recognised in childhood; others only connect lifelong patterns after a major change in adult life.
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🎭 Autism in children & teenagers
Early signs may be visible well before assessment and suitable support become available.
Read the story ›Your situation is not listed?
Share your experience. New subjects are added when recurring patterns become visible.
Share your experience ›Why we collect this
Each story on its own looks like an exception. But together they show patterns: the same condition recognised too late again and again, the same risks not told, the same coordination missing. Those patterns are what we want to make visible.
We do not ask for your records or your name. We ask for your experience.
“We are not looking for the guilty. We are looking for patterns.”