There are shady doctors and workers, just as there are in any field. There are also extremely kind and compassionate ones who genuinely want to see a patient's condition improve as much as possible so they can live and thrive.

I've attempted suicide more times than I care to admit. I've lived with crippling paranoia an delusions. Hallucinations have put me in some of the most deranged places I can imagine. When my diagnosis was put on track in my 20's and I started receiving proper medication, my life improved exponentially. Do I still have struggles? Absolutely. But I'm finally making progress towards my goals and ambitions, and even outdoing others in performance and workload (as a BP-SZA no less). I've had 3 primary psychiatrists since entering my 20's, all of which have treated me with the greatest dignity and respect. And all of which have sought to find ways to effectively treat with the least amount of medication possible.

Psychiatry isn't an exact science by any stretch of the imagination. There's a lot of trial-and-error. We're still a long way from fully understanding the brain - an insanely complex machine. But psychiatry gave me my life back and my socio-economic status is nothing to write home about. Again, I will not argue that the field is without terrible people who have no business practicing it. But I'm not going to paint everything with the same brush. My real bone to pick is with the state of the pharmaceutical industry.