Thanks! Great information. I once stood up to a psychiatrist and fortunately was sane enough to know when I was being given a "crazy" explanation for my normal behavior. I left him and have since found out he has a terrible reputation, even among other mental-health professionals. (He was trying to force me to go off all my antidepressants cold turkey. I brought in articles from professional journals about the importance of weaning and shared them with the therapist who worked with him. I was her patient. I know he was likely embarrassed and felt threatened, but he told me I was just trying to get attention, feel important, etc.--like my behavior was part of my mental illness. He said he "had always done it that way." Evidently he didn't read professional journals!)
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