[jbondeson]

EDIT: Missed the bit about the psychiatrist not asking questions, sounds like an encounter with a bad psychiatrist.

You were prescribed anti-depressants by a medical doctor (most likely without even the most rudimentary training in mental health), and you blame psychiatrists? How does that make any sense?

You may as well blame mechanics for the bad advice you got on fixing your car from the guy at the bicycle shop.

[wisty]

If you complain about psychological things to a medical doctor, on of the first questions they should ask is "have you been on any medication, or used any other kind of drug?". Psychiatrists should be asking the same thing.

[choros12]

I know this. The reality is once you behave crazy as I did (because of the meds), they just assume things and put their assumptions before the process.

Then I did complain to the Doctor that I think the meds are causing this, but she refused telling me that she administers them frequently to the patients and never has seen reaction like this. According to fda.gov about 1% population has paradoxical reaction to Benadryl (i.e. people get anxious like I did instead of calming down). The paradoxical reaction is cause by liver enzymes working differently in my body. She just didn't know. When I said this she looked at me even more suspiciously.

Once they set their mind on you being crazy, that's it. The more you tell, even being right and correct, will seem more crazy talk making them more convinced of your mental issues.

I thought with psychiatrist will be better, but he was even worse. Treated me like child & crazy person right from the door step.

I'm so glad the anxiety stopped on its own day later and that my suspicion of medications causing it turned out true.

I mean they were able to convince me that I'm crazy. I'd believe them... that's how bad the system is.

[nknight]

> You were prescribed anti-depressants by a medical doctor (most likely without even the most rudimentary training in mental health), and you blame psychiatrists?

Psychiatrists are medical doctors. Many of them work in hospitals. Why are you assuming he was prescribed antidepressants by a medical doctor who isn't a psychiatrist?

EDIT: He even says it was a psychiatrist: "Psychiatrist didn't even ask questions and prescribed me anti-depressants."

[jbondeson]

Yes, I missed the qualifier about the psychiatrist. Sadly there are many MDs that will prescribe psychotropics when they have no training in doing so.