My experiences with 'psychiatrists' have been more bad then good. I think the whole 'I know you better than you know yourself' notion has been taken to its logical extreme and that's the root of all of the abuse. No one bothers to listen to the patient or their feelings, god forbid anyone display the basic human compassion to listen to what the person has to say about the root cause of their troubles, they only want to decide for them as a rationale to inflict further torture disguised as 'treatment'.

I find it a little ironic that I actually do think things are wrong with me, but the overwhelming attitude in society (held by psychiatrists, family figures and supposedly 'helpful' people) is that I made a deliberate choice to incur or perpetuate my suffering - victim blaming, essentially - aggravates my troubles, rendering me paralyzed and only further entrenched in my own constant misery.

People only give a ***** about the fact that mental illnesses happen, instead of the circumstances which brought them on. I'd say, more often than not, the illnesses in question are the natural responses in the brain to repeated exposure to horrible, pervasive factors in one's environment. Treat the cause, not the "symptoms".