Wolfpup wrote:
Out of curiosity, what did they misdiagnose you with?
If your question was directed to me, I will mention it. One psychiatrist gave me an official diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia, simply because I refused to name some people that were stalking me (being taken to jail and then to a psych facility, for no other reason than having refused to speak with a govt social worker about my personal problems, was a very traumatic experience for me, and I thought that, as a citizen, I had rights against undue seizure). I had no idea that psychiatrists possessed such legal power over the general population. Another refused to give me a second opinion on that diagnosis (probably to protect his coleague’s reputation). Two others which I saw after leaving the facility, gave that diagnosis precidence over anything that I said, or even over my obviously NON-schizophenic rationale. I told the final one that I had stopped taking the psychotropic drugs because I felt that nobody’s judgement of someone else’s mental state should be given extra importance, and that nobody had any business trying to control the brains of others. He tried to convince me that what I was saying was propaganda from scientologists - even though I was not familiar with that society’s agenda. I never took psychotropics again, never visited a psychiatrist again, was not overly encouraged by anyone to do these things, and was eventually accepted as a non-dangerous excentric person (after a psychologist varified that I was not schizophrenic).
As far as I know, psychiatrists are not required to have any psychology skills at all. All they are required to do is make personal decisions about which people should be (or can be) doped up (for either control or for more pharmaceutical company profit).
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Why be a label, be yourself and keep others guessing instead. - Dee_.