As a general rule I don't trust psychiatrists. Partly because psychiatry is so unscientific. They are guessing a lot of the time! Otherwise some are genuine and conscientious, some aren't. Unfortunately in the UK you don't get choice in who you are referred to, so it is down to luck whether you get someone good or not.

Then there seems to be the policy here to get people on meds because once medicated they are less trouble (and probably less cost to the NHS). I had one drug that put me into a stupor-like state and was only alert for 5 hours out of 24. I had no life at all. Psych wouldn't help me, so I had to decide myself to come off that drug.

Psychiatrist I see at the moment is pretty good, understands how badly I suffer from side effects, and how the drugs have damaged me. She still really wants me to take drugs, but they have harmed me too much and I can't take the risk. I think she is waiting for me to get in a bad way so she can make me take them. She is not interested in other treatments.