I may have said this elsewhere but I'll say it again.
Most so-called "mental illnesses" are nothing more than reactions to adverse life events.
In my own extensive years-long experience of people in the "mental health system" there are not many exceptions to this.
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In the USA a psychiatrist does what a psychologist does in the UK - talk to you about your problems.
In England it was and still is possible to go for decades through the entire "mental health" process and not have a chat with someone about what it is that is upsetting you.
Psychiatrists in England are possibly the most pointless and useless people ever to have existed in the history of human employment.
All UK psychiatrists are trained physicians, they have all done several years of medical training.
The big question is - WHY?
Why did they waste all those years learning skills at great expense that they will never need for a job that consists of next to nothing except poisoning and imprisoning?
They poison and imprison and do not care about you as long as you cause no trouble.
In England, the recent emergence of psychologists - someone who might possibly help you rather than punish you - is still only in its infancy.
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