I get mass emails from Quora. One of the questions today was "does psychiatry help the patients?" The 1 reply I saw was rambling, and it closed with something to the effect that the mental health "professionals" benefit from standard treatment, many (most?) people/patients do not.

So...I got to thinking...has psychiatry done much to help me? And...I don't know. I'm not trying to sound like a bitter ex-patient, its just...I honestly don't know. I think for a lot of us we either try to negotiate OK treatment on an outpatient basis, or we end up inpatient, with far less power to haggle.

so...for all of you out there...has psychiatry helped?