Recognise your situation

Conditions & symptoms

Start from your condition or symptoms. These pages show where recognition, diagnosis, treatment or coordination can get stuck.

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.

Only receiving a diagnosis at forty. When several clinicians treat separate diagnoses without coordinating, a care trap can develop.

Weight loss may come with risks, from gallstones to altered medication absorption, that are not always fully discussed.

About two million people in the Netherlands live with migraine, while only a fraction receive appropriate care.

Compare migraine, tension-type headache, cluster headache, medication overuse and facial pain.

Roughly one in ten people are affected. Shame and uncertainty can delay the first conversation about symptoms.

Diagnosis is often delayed for years when severe menstrual pain is normalised or symptoms are considered separately.

Persistent widespread pain and fatigue can be disabling even when routine tests do not provide a simple explanation.

Evidence-based treatments exist, but access, recognition and continuity of trauma care remain uneven.

Masking and different presentations can lead to autism being missed or mistaken for another condition.

Some are recognised in childhood; others only connect lifelong patterns after a major change in adult life.

Early signs may be visible well before assessment and suitable support become available.

When symptoms last, return after exertion, and care, work and income all come under pressure.

Who should you contact in acute mental distress: 112, 113, a GP, out-of-hours GP service or your clinician?

Share your experience. New subjects are added when recurring patterns become visible.