Why I Don’t Fire the Shrink, and follow-up

I’m sorry to drop the last post down because I think it is one of my more important ones and would like it to get as much traffic as possible. Maybe I’ll make it a page or something, but I wanted to write a little more today.
Tony White over at Graffiti left me a beautiful [...]

On mental illness and stigma in medicine

Today I saw a patient for a pre-operative evaluation. This is a consultation for a patient that needs surgery, but who has other medical problems that make the surgeon nervous, and the surgeon basically wants someone like me to sign that I evaluated the person so that I can be blamed if something goes wrong. [...]

Does long-term, non-remitting mental illness need a psychiatrist?

Over at Vicarious Therapy, Aqua is really upset about an article by the Canadian Psychiatric Association. She says that it basically justifies dumping chronically mentally ill people out of the system.
I’m not sure I agree with her interpretation of the article, but I can see why she is offended. But I’m  not. I think they [...]

My Answer to the Commenters

I started to put this in the comments and then just decided to post it as a regular post, because it was turning into one in length.
Thanks for writing, everyone. Thank you especially 5150 for reminding me that it will fade. I kept telling myself that during the worst of it…that it wouldn’t be forever [...]

Hello, World

Sorry I haven’t posted, if anyone is still reading after the massive amount of traffic from the obesity websites.
My mental health has crashed lately. Partly because of the drugs, I think, and partly because of the sleep deprivation experiment that is my job. I am not sure where I am going from here, whether a [...]