My first psychiatrist was a strange man. At my first appointment I explained that I thought I had a history of Bipolar disorder. He agreed that it did sound like it could be, but decided to put me on Prozac alone for starters, then promptly went on 3 weeks leave. I went mixed immediately, but had no idea what to do. 3 weeks later his response was simply - "you could have gone to hospital to resolve it..."
"well you have probably suffered irreversible damage now..."
Some time down the track, I was alarmed at the weight gain I had with Seroquel. His response was "you know weight gain is directly proportional to food intake..." (I have since found that the relationship is not that linear, and even by eating less than I did before drugs, I still gained weight).

With another psychiatrist, I was unhappy on antipsychotics, so she agreed to take me off them. We tapered the dose over 1 week. At the follow-up 4 weeks later, I (stupidly) told her that the voices had returned 2 weeks after stopping the antipsychotics. She took that as proof that I was inherently ill, and that I needed to be on antipsychotics for life. I told her I felt the antipsychotics were making me ill (derealisation). She said they never do that, and my rejection of them was part of my illness. ?????!!!!! Has she never heard of the effects of coming off neuroleptics too quickly?

My pet fish are now my appointed therapists LOL.