Dear TishaBuv, Good observation. Drollery about your mother. So sorry to hear she's so unsupportive. The money being spent on him is from the taxpayers -- Medicare. There is a very limited number of pdocs who accept Medicare patients This is a public health clnic. All the providers I have had except this one, have been 100% great. They are psychiatric nurse practitioners, supervised by a pdoc MD. I've never met the MD. The only Medicare listed pdoc MD in private practice I ever went to was extremely rude. What a horrible man THAT one was. Overall, though, my experience in THIS city where I have lived for over 20 years,has been excellent. NO OTHER PLACE I lived had EVER given me any help, nor had any person or clinic I could find that knew what to do for me, and sometimes just made me worse. I was in my 50s when I moved here and got my dx. I have had depression since I was 3-4 years old.