Why are psychiatrists so useless?

[Jade Tiki Puku]

One would think the psychiatry attracts the smart people, but this is not the case, they are not intelligent at all. All they want is to gain and maintain status, to have power and to make themselves feel adequate, I have never met one that is outside this remit and is actually helpful and human.
Why do multi disciplinary teams always have a consultant leading them?
Brick and mortar do not institutionalise people, it is people who institutionalise people and it is the professionals who do this with the application of power, control and manipulation. As for the nurses, they are all simpletons who get off on being lazy, uncaring and uninterested. Any nurse who wants to help the patients is told they are "identifying" with the patients and are very quickly marginalised and demonised by the other nurses. The just don't like people who are ill and try to make the patients feel that their illness is down to themselves, they have a great prejudice against mental illness.
Any comment by any professionals is welcome.

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[judithmcnaughts]

Depression is an umbrella term. This is a little bit like some people say there is a virus. It says nothing beyond the fact that both happened yet classified. Real depression is nothing to do with feelings. It is the function. Thus, a person who feels good, but found that some cognitive dysfunction - for example, have a reduced ability to read and understand a document may be considered to be depressed.

[Sra.rosa]

Hi there

You use some really big words there. I'm wondering, have you had a bad experience with a therapist or haven't you tried one yet?
I mean, there should be some therapists out there, who would be more helpful than you describe??
I've been looking through some sites that might be helpful:

https://www.breakthrough.com/
http://www.mentaline.com/

My freind found her therapist through these sites. I'm not sure whether you want to start a discussion or ...?

[MCA21]

I don't have no problems with psychiatrists but the drugs they prescribed are worst then any worst drugs.

[sohel2011]

When it comes to diagnosing its a case of trial and error - the patient and the Doc need to work like a team to find the best solution for the problem. You get the great ones you learn from and the others you have to teach. There is not enough funding and so they can't spend much time with you in UK and you get fobbed off with a community mental health nurse who is very sweet but not much else.

[macx]

Depression is an umbrella term. It's a bit like saying somebody has a virus. It says nothing beyond the fact that whatever is happening hasn't been categorised.
Real depression has nothing whatever to do with feelings. It is functional. So a person who feels fine but finds some cognitive function impaired - for example having reduced ability to read & understand a document might be considered depressed. This might apply to anybody whose mental performance is less than their normal level. It's just that after you struggle with this for a while it does bring your feelings down also.
It's quite probable that the frustration you express against psychiatrists in general is an early manifestation of that state. Unless you can get to the root of the issue that first caused you to have to see a psychiatrist & then resolve it, the low mood will follow inside a couple of years.

[eyekay]

I've had a few bad experiences with psychiatrist. I went to see one for anxiety and depression and he did nothing all to address my anxiety. I had a couple of panic attacks during the period I was seeing him. Each time I told him about the panic attacks he simply responsed by saying something negative, which made me feel even worse.

He would also nitpick everything I said. I felt like it wasn't safe to say anything. For example I said to him once at the start of a session," I can't think of too much to say today" His reponse was "I don't agree", because his reasoning was that you always have something on your mind and in therapy you are free to say what ever you want. He didn't understand that for me talking in any situation is hard and sometimes and don't always have something relevant on my mind that I wish to discuss with him.