From my experiences with youth mental hospitals in the Netherlands, they are dominated by the same &quot;just medicate it away&quot; line of reasoning. Therapy <i>exists</i> but is not taken very seriously, and the most important thing of all - listening to somebody&#x27;s story - is ignored completely.<p>It&#x27;s very rare to find anybody in these mental hospitals who <i>isn&#x27;t</i> on medication, even those who are there through no fault or issue of their own (eg. because of problems with their parents). The only reason I didn&#x27;t end up taking medication there, was because I categorically refused it.