>never really asked how I felt Psychiatry is distinct from psychology and other forms of talk therapy. When all you have is a hammer, etc. The separation is

>never really asked how I felt Psychiatry is distinct from psychology and other forms of talk therapy. When all you have is a hammer, etc. The separation is amusingly pronounced. Even for a teenager it is pretty much totally up to the patient whether to see a psychiatrist, psychologist who uses empirically validated methods, psychologist who doesn't, LCSW, GP, etc. and they will all tell you wildly different things. It doesn't help that most people haven't heard of, or don't know the difference between, many of those things.