Psychiatrists and mental health

[pfitz59]

General observation: Psychiatrists are not immune to the illnesses they treat. Just look at Charles Krauthammer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer

[itsrobert]

1. Many become psychiatrists because they are looking for answers

about themselves and why the way they are; and self-treatment.

[notesdev]

5. Oh yeah aint that the truth

Everyone I know who is in that field went into it to figure out their own mental problems, every last one.

[HipChick]

2. I worked at an acute Mental Health Unit for years..

While I was there, 3 dr's killed themselves..2 nurses tried to off themselves...there were numerous alcholics,drugs that got fired..and there were ones who just hid it well enough to perform their job

[XemaSab]

4. My mom worked at a care facility in San Francisco

There were a lot of crazy staffers. The worst one was an arsonist. :o

[XemaSab]

3. In a mental hospital, how do you tell the difference between the staff and the patients?

The staff have the keys. :P

[nightrain]

6. It's really painful work to listen to and treat peoples' problems

hour after hour. And unless the practitioner has a good self-care system in place, they can get traumatized themselves.

[juno jones]

7. Yes.

And it sounds like this guy was rejected by many of his peers on some level. He might not have had the sympathetic and intuitive ear he needed when he had to unload.

[Ernesto]

8. I got a degree in psyc... but chose to be a Sheet Metal Worker

I just didn't like hanging around with nuts.

[FarCenter]

9. Tinfoil bends easier

[Ernesto]

10. than what?

[FarCenter]

11. Sheet metal

[G_j]

12. we had a city councilman (for 8 yrs.) who was a shrink

and an extreme RWinger who would, for example, go to local concerts looking for people smoking pot, cruise certain neighborhoods trying to 'buy' crack, showed up at a plant trying to catch undocumented immigrants.


I can't possibly imagine what harm he could do to a patient.


(he just lost his CC seat!)