Well, this thread will be full of meaningless and snide comments ..I doubt very few who have worked for years with people with mental illness will even bother replying.
Psychiatry is very difficult because it is so complex, unlike a broken foot or pneumonia. We sure have come a long way from locking everyone up in “insane aslylums” because there were no modern treatments.
Like I said “I QUIT going to a psychiatrist” when I realized that the whole profession is a lie.
I reply at least once but I won't do long arguments because those who are adamant it's witchcraft will not change their minds. In a nutshell, I helped people learn to solve their problems so they could run their life and not have to come back to me. No medicine involved.
There’s a lot of shooting from the hip. However I would assert boldly that most of what is conducted as psychology and psychiatry today is bereft of a sense of the spiritual. That does not make psychology and psychiatry necessarily useless, but does hobble it and sometimes misleads it badly.