Interesting hearing people's views on this.

I agree with innerzone that tactful communication and delivery is important. If you treat your health care team disrespectly or like you know everything, yeah the response will probably not be a desirable one. But I didn't get that impression from the OP message. I mean my complaining about past crappy drs sort of makes me sound like an asshole, but that was me ranting. I would never tell them "I have a graduate degree and I read a lot. I am right and you are wrong!"

I get drs being annoyed when patients come to them with some info they learned from a commercial or googling crap. It must be frustrating. But I also know that when parents come to meetings with lots of educational ideas and inaccuracies, that I treat them with respect and patiently listen even if they have no idea what they are talking about. Because it is my job and I am not a **** and people are just trying to be informed and feel some sense of control. And I do think That some psychiatric medical professionals really do dismiss us and treat us like **** because of our disorders. Talk about being stigmatized! It demoralizing and I think they should be called out on it. Sadly, there are a lot of bad doctors out and here and sometimes you have to advocate for yourself even if it is hard and uncomfortable and not welcome.