Has anyone been to see a psychiatrist? I think they're weird.?

Answer 1

Yeah, I've been to many. All quacks I tell ya.
One lady didn't even know my name after I've had about 5 or 6 sessions already. This wacko had the wrong file and was talking to me about someone else's problems thinking that I was that person.
NEVER again

Answer 2

It's pretty ignorant to generalize people. Just as in any profession, I'm sure there are "weird" psychiatrists. Have you ever seen a weird cashier, a weird teacher, a weird salesperson? Of course. I see a psychiatrist and have been seeing her for the past five years. She's one of the most understanding, compassionate people I've ever come across.

*By the way, a psychiatrist and a psychologist are two different things.

Answer 3

Depends on the psychiatrist. Some are very strange and really shouldn't be practicing medicine. Others are wonderful people who genuinely want to help and are great to talk to.

Answer 4

I agree - they are some of the weirdest people I have ever run across. I had one psychiatrist tell me that he worries about incest with people who name their daughters "Dawn" or "Desiree." Huh?

When I told him my name (not Dawn OR Desiree), he said that my father must have been a whimsical man to have named me ________. Huh? Did he know if it was my father who named me? No. My father - whimsical? No. Brother! That guy was a complete loon.

Answer 5

Yes I have met a psychiatrist who was treating my brother.He was nice,educated & well versed.He made my brother very comfortable & was very helpful.

Answer 6

Yes, absolutely psychiatrists are weird. I have actually been to one and it was one of the most horrible experiences in my life. Never did I feel so judged and so invalidated as a person. The person who called them quacks was right on.

There is NO science to the way psychiatrists come up with so-called "mental illnesses." Psychiatrists make up diseases at their annual conventions where new illnesses are created by simple majority vote. Unlike with real diseases, not a single medical test exists to verify so-called mental illness. Yet, psychiatry’s bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) contains 374 ways to label a person mentally ill.

Herb Kutchins of California State University, Sacramento, and Stuart A. Kirk of the University of California, Los Angeles, authors of Making Us Crazy: The Psychiatric Bible and the Creation of Mental Disorders wrote, “the developers of DSM assume that if a group of psychiatrists agree on a list of atypical [new] behaviors, the behaviors constitute a valid mental disorder. Using this approach, creating mental disorders can become a parlor game in which clusters of all kinds of behaviors (i.e. syndromes) can be added to the manual.”

Dr. Thomas Dorman, an internist and member of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, wrote, “In short, the whole business of creating psychiatric categories of ‘disease,’ formalizing them with consensus, and subsequently ascribing diagnostic codes to them, which in turn leads to their use for insurance billing, is nothing but an extended racket furnishing psychiatry a pseudo-scientific aura. The perpetrators are, of course, feeding at the public trough.”

Psychiatrists claim that a person “needs” a drug to combat their “chemical imbalance” in the brain which is causing a person’s “mental disorder.” However, the concept that a brain-based, chemical imbalance underlies mental illness is false. While popularized by heavy public marketing, it is simply psychiatric wishful thinking. As with all of psychiatry’s disease models, it has been thoroughly discredited by researchers.

Diabetes is a biochemical imbalance. However, as Harvard psychiatrist Joseph Glenmullen states, “the definitive test and biochemical imbalance is a high blood sugar balance level. Treatment in severe cases is insulin injections, which restore sugar balance. The symptoms clear and retest shows the blood sugar is normal. Nothing like a sodium imbalance or blood sugar imbalance exists for depression or any other psychiatric syndrome.”

In 1996, psychiatrist David Kaiser said, “...modern psychiatry has yet to convincingly prove the genetic/biologic cause of any single mental illness...Patients [have] been diagnosed with ‘chemical imbalances’ despite the fact that no test exists to support such a claim, and...there is no real conception of what a correct chemical balance would look like.”

The U.S. Surgeon General’s Report on Mental Health states: “The precise causes (etiology) of mental disorders are not known” and that “there is no definitive lesion, laboratory test, or abnormality in brain tissue that can identify the illness.”

Symptoms that psychiatry labels as mental illness, can stem from any number of variable sources. Many people, for example, have overcome "mental illness" through megavitamin therapy and effective nutrition. A growing wealth of evidence supports that underlying nutritional deficiencies can cause even the most severe mental disorders, including symptoms labelled as "schizophrenia" [See source refs]

1.Effective Mood Stabilization With a Chelated Mineral Supplement: An Open-Label Trial in Bipolar (Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 62:12, December 2001).

2.Commentary: Do Vitamins or Minerals (Apart From Lithium) Have Mood-Stabilizing Effects? (Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 62:933-935, December 2001).

3.Treatment of Mood Lability and Explosive Rage with Minerals and Vitamins: Two Case Studies in Children, (Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology Volume 12(3): 203-218, 2002).

4.Nutritional Approach to Bipolar Disorder, (Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 64:3, March 2003).

5.Improved Mood and Behavior During Treatment with a Mineral-Vitamin Supplement: An Open-Label Case Series of Children (Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, Volume 14, Number 1, 2004).

Answer 7

I have seen one and was impressed with his credentials, he was certainly better-educated than I was. Other than that, yeah, I did find him a bit odd. Saw him twice and that was it. That doesn't mean that they all are, though.

Answer 8

I have never been to one but I think it would be interesting to talk to one.

Answer 9

haven't seeiing one,but if i ever do,,i Willl have to question,the verdicts and psychological flaws,they wil find on me

Answer 10

all they do is write out the scriptions for your drugs, i see mine for about 10 minutes and that's it, my therapist hears all my b.s. she's really cool.