Why are all psychiatrists/psychologists fucked up

OMG! Social workers are even worse. Every psychologist I know is crazy. At least the psychiatrists can self medicate.

In college, the most messed up people I met were psych majors.

Great question. Social workers are the worst but they are all crazy.

Is it all about ‘doctor heal thyself’?

My old shrink charged me for 1 hour of therapy and she doesnt take insurance I had to pay cash then proceeded to talk about how stressed out she is and how her kids are anxious and in the spectrum. After a few visits, I started buying my meds online.

I was a psych major in college because it was just more intrinsically interesting to me - is it because I'm fucked up? I'm not that fucked up - but it explained a lot regardless. A psych major also studies neuroscience, social psych (how our surroundings affect behavior - unrelated to clinical), cognitive psych, and developmental / child psych. Clinical is just one class. I actually took a class in artificial intelligence that fell under psych somehow at my school. Clinical practitioners focus heavily on disorders and "issues" - unlike just a psych major - so it's a much deeper / focused curiosity in the topic that I think is coming from their own issues.

That being said, I had a phenomenal psychologist back in the day who seemed like the most emotionally stable person on Earth. When I moved, I went through 5 before I gave up. I actually left sessions feeling worse with a few of them.

Went through 5 psychologists before I found one who knew what he was doing. He saved my life. Literally.

Thanks r6... I don't know how you could put up with all of it. I wish I could have done it but I was serious when I said some of them made me feel worse. I couldn't deal with it anymore. And all the re-explaining everything. I hate doing the introduction to my life every time.

I found that the ones that worked the best for me arent the sweetest, nicest therapists. I do better with the more clinical and methodical ones. I actually have friends who can enable and empathize with me.

They go into it to figure out how to treat themselves. I went to school to become a respiratory therapist and I was amazed at how many of the other students had severe asthma. This goes triple for social workers.

Hey, you want fucked up? How about the people who teach psychology at the less glamorous colleges! They are, I presume, psych majors who had some vague intent of fixing themselves, and who couldn't hack dealing with real patients or serious academia, and end up teaching.

I spent years in night school, and passing the psych classes was actually my biggest challenge. Because so many of the teachers were clinically insane that I had to start classes, drop them, look for alternatives, look for alternatives at a different campus, before I could find a teacher who had even a tentative connection to reality and the stuff in the textbooks.

I go to the mental health clinic of a large hospital and I see psych residents. Every two years a new one as the old ones graduate. I've been going for about 10 years, the first five to help with actual problems I had and went once a week and the last 5 once a month the minimum you can go and still get scripts for Ambien and Ativan. I could never find a regular primary care or any other kind would give me these drugs on a regular basis. So that's about 5 different residents. They've all been young, very good, nice and competent and normal. Maybe the crazy comes later when they have their own practices. They are all MDs btw, psychiatrists, not psychologists. The first two from countries in South America and the last three Americans. The first two men, the last three women.