Unfortunately IME I've found healthcare professionals can be just as stigmatising as everyone else. Psychiatry, for example, doesn't always attract the best and brightest, but often the Drs who couldn't handle other areas of medicine. Four people that I personally know from medschool went into psychiatry, only one of them because she genuinely had an interest in it (unfortunately she later burnt out and left medicine completely). The other 3 went into psych because they couldn't do what they really wanted to do as it was too competitive and/or challenging.

Whilst psych is challenging emotionally, it's often seen as an 'easier' option in terms of on call rotas and the professional exams aren't seen as so difficult. In medschool we used to call those pdocs '40 percenters' ie they just scraped a pass through medschool. It's really terrible! However, there are a few good ones out there who are bright and interested in their profession and want to help their patients. Unfortunately IME you have to wade through a lot of garbage to find them :/

Btw, neither of those girls got onto a clinical psychology doctoral programme yet But they do still work in mental health fields...

*Willow*