Is my experience representative of other people's experience with mental health care in Canada or am I unlucky?

I've dealt with similar, but Ive never even got to the treatment phase.

I was diagnosed as a very little kid with OCD. They told my parents I'd "grow out of it". I didn't (duh) so my parents read CBT books and tried to implement the techniques themselves. It helped.

It came back with a vengeance as a teenager, now diagnosed comorbid with anxiety disorder, depression, and panic attacks. I got brought to the hospital many times, and was always gave me benzos, sent home and told me to rest. My parents called the youth mental health crisis line when I was having a panic attack and instead of counsellors, several cops showed up and yelled at me till I cried to the point of difficulty breathing about "wasting resources" and being a terrible, selfish daughter.

It was actually only when I got sent to the hospital for my stomach condition, and the nurses noticed something was wrong, that I even got onto a therapy waiting list. It was two years long, and I was sixteen. The doctors at the children's hospital spoke like I wasn't in the room, only interacting with my parents, saying that I wasn't trying hard enough to stop my OCD. The only kind person there was a social worker who helped me go through CBT printouts from the internet, but she wasn't even certified in CBT.

By the time I had reached near the end of the wait list, I was eighteen. I got kicked off. Then I had to join the adult wait list, which was even longer. I just gave up. I tried getting help at my university, but they only allowed for 4 therapy sessions. Hardly enough to treat OCD. And private therapy, literally the only option left, is basically out of the price range of everyone but the rich. I can't afford to pay $500-$1000 a month for that. So I just keep suffering. And I probably always will.

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