I had some strange change of mind about this. Previously, I was shocked about long waiting times as well. I must note that in my area the waiting time is rather

I had some strange change of mind about this. Previously, I was shocked about long waiting times as well. I must note that in my area the waiting time is rather a low 1 digit number of months, so the situation here is much less severe. But my opinion on this changed over the years. As in any peer group, I guess, there is some broken people in mine, too. I draw all my experience from that. Sometimes I feel there is way to many in my peer group. But aparently this is normal among young european people with higher aducation, I don't know. Maybe simple people talk about his more... Anyways. Waiting at least three months for somebody with a median-type depression seems hard even without suicidal thoughts. I guess, that waiting time is even harder for the people who suddenly notice how they live their life is fucked up, and they need help. E.g. due to sudden realization of their own toxic behaviour, sudden realization of their terrific past and its effect on them, burnout (surprisingly, I have not expierienced that within my peer group, yet, apart from once rather tangientally) or even simple realization of a highly unhealthy relationship to work or significant other. However. Aparently, finding a therapist with whome effective treatment is possible, is extremely hard. In particular, those with - let's call it - interesting past, seemed to switch therapists once or twice before finding someone with whome to work yielded noticable changes in their life. Also a good fraction of those in my peer group had questionable therapists. I can not jugde this, but I believe that achieving the art of being a good therapists (at least for some people) is among the most difficult skills one might aim for. After finding a therapist that treatment often lasted for years. And with that as a support, they changed their life. Sometimes, entirely. Of course, this is not true for all of them, unfortunately. And maybe even only for less then half of them. Nevertheless, for some relevant fraction of them it lead to invaluable gains in their life. It lead to something, that is definitely worth to wait for a couple of months. I noticed a problem is missing opportunities for non-pharmaceutic intermediate help for "non-urgent" cases waiting for "real" therapy. E.g. group-therapy with the clear intent of being for people that wait for something else. While this doesn't solve the problem of too little "supply" when compared to the "demand", it may help those people a lot. Even if only to show them, we care, even though resources are scarse (or terribly organized, whatever of these two). Also I wrote "demand" with some kind of thruth behind this. At least for some in my peer group zi feel like their desire to be "sick" and their demands for help is a (possibly pathological - I cannot jugde this) problem in itself.