rpcarnell wrote:
My experience with psychiatrist is limited to 0. I haven't been to one.
But from what I can see, they seem to be a group of people that may think you need help if you do anything that is outside the social norm. For example, a religious psychiatrist may think I am crazy, since i have been an atheist for twenty years, or at least he will think I am angry with religion, or I have Asperger Syndrome, and I can't understand abstract concepts, like religion.
I have never been on a date, and I haven't had a relationship with anyone, and I am not planning to either. And that's that. Once again, this isn't something a psychiatrist would consider normal, and he'd try to "brainwash me" into changing that.
I grew up in a catholic family, and as a kid, I couldn't pronounce the r, the s, and the t. Whenever I asked my family to help me change that (in Panama, you can't work until you are 18), they told me I should see a psychiatrist because there was nothing wrong with not being able to talk properly. They just wanted the power of prayer to fix the whole thing, not a speech therapist. Perhaps my bias comes from those days.
First of all, can you please be more specific about what you are experiencing that you want a psychiatrist to treat? From your post I cannot tell if a psychiatrist would even be able to help you.
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