I have a 'love/hate' feeling about mental health 'professionals'. Sometimes just showing up to a psych isn't enough...they are the ones who gave me the antidepressant alone because they didn't know better in the first place...why is anybody's guess. Psychs are representative of the general population. There are lazy ones, egotistical ones, indifferent ones and ones that after getting their diploma, threw their books out and are just coasting along drawing big paychecks, content making life altering decisions for sufferers using decades old information...because they aren't motivated enough to learn the latest thinking on bipolar.

Lol The first therapist I ever saw in 1982 told me to take a baseball bat and knock the hell out of a telephone pole. I'm not kidding...that was his recommendation! Now 33yrs later he's in jail for molesting two special needs clients. A really quality therapist.

At the end of the day though its a shame we have to, in the depths of our symptoms, know enough to protect ourselves and learn enough about our disorder to take to the people that SHOULD know how to treat us. I took a bombing from a egotistical psych right out of hospital in '11, and lost almost a year in a mis-medicated fog. After I fired his sorry azz the next two meetings with potential psychs you could say was pretty tense.

Finally found a female psych that made my world right again. I learned that when a psych suggests something don't just nod your head...get up on the edge of your seat and ask how they came to that conclusion. You'll find out really quick which ones know what they're talking about and which ones are playing pin the tail on the donkey.