Psychiatrists are dangerous quacks, and their pills make you sicker than you were when you went in for help. I would think twice before trusting anyone in my family to their tender mercies.
psychiatrists aren’t quacks.
Fifty years ago, when I started medical school, we had state hospitals full of very mentally ill schizophrenics etc.
Most folks think psychiatry is about quirky folks who are cute and only need love. The movies are the worst ones at pushing this idea (silver lining playbook? One flew over the cukoo nest? As good as it gets? Blecch...)
Until you have seen or worked with those with severe mental illness, you can’t appreciate that it is real. Just because some spoiled yuppies feel sorry for themselves doesn’t mean that depression, post traumatic stress syndrome, or schizoprhrenia are minor problems: And all of them can be treated with medicines: Not a cure, and not everyone, but most of them.