I'll also say that lots of psychiatrists will play games with you. If they feel you are duping them or they just plain don't understand where you're coming from or they feel that you're rambling they will ignore what you're telling them and start doing what they want whether you agree or not (and whether you're having horrific side effects or not). If that's what they teach in Psychiatry School then they need to revamp their programs. I think it's one of the only medical fields where Doctors will keep things from you and/or play games. Some Doctors just don't understand where you get your thoughts for some reason: Hey Doc - ever think that maybe that's part of the problem and why I came to see you in the first place?

I was part of a day program when I was in a halfway house and the Psychiatrist there was abominable: he didn't consult with patients when prescribing medication - he met with me for 5 minutes, I told him I wanted off of clozaril cause it wasn't working, he told me "No" that I had "breaks in reality". That was my first appt. w/him - he had never consulted with me before.

I won't even go into Psychiatrists who fall asleep during sessions. Or one Psychiatrist in the Philadelphia area who told me I was a "shmuck" and told me that he was an admirer of Hitler - (he lost his license, thank God).