I've been lucky - with the exception of my first psychiatrist, all my psychiatrists have been really amazing. They listen to me, know their meds, take my side effects into account, take my views into account when talking about lowering, decreasing dosage. I've felt like they all really cared about me.

I don't know if this has made a difference, but all the psychiatrists I've seen have been through a major psych hospital, which is also a teaching hospital affiliated with the U of T's med school, so all the pdoc's on staff are also professors in the med school, so you have to be pretty top notch to work there.

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