I have had many horrendously awful experiences myself, but I also trained in medicine and wanted to become a psychiatrist, and so I know that there's good and bad staff, and that the system itself causes some of those issues.

So, yes, there absolutely are awful Drs, and stigma against MH within the NHS, but there are also good people doing their very best in a crappy system that is coming apart at the seams because of inefficiencies and chronic neglect from a Govt determined to run the NHS into the ground and privatise it. It's not right, and it's not fair, but I'm concerned it's going to be a while before it gets better, if it still can at this point...

*Willow*