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Most of the places I've lived, especially in the bay area, psychiatrists were completely incentivized to prescribe as much addictive and known to be ineffective medicine as they could to keep the patient dependent and coming back / paying. There was no incentive for and few of them were interested in actual non-drug therapy. Some were actually hostile to the idea of non-drug therapy or reducing/stopping the medicine I was on at the time. In addition, in the US, there are many reporting requirements that require psychiatrists to report certain things said in meetings with patients to officials. One can end up in a mental hospital with the cops searching their house by simply saying the wrong things or saying the right things in the wrong way. This just begins to scratch the surface of why psychiatrists are not like other doctors. And lets face it, many doctors in general are not that great at their jobs in general--a job where one mistake can mean the difference between life and death. Having anxiety about seeing any health professional, mental or physical, is hardly an unnatural or abnormal reaction. Then you get to costs, health insurance, etc. and it gets even easier to see why people would be deterred from seeing mental health professionals especially psychiatrists.