I agree, and I'd like to add, it is very difficult to sort the wheat from the chaff as a client. The psych is expected to know an awful lot more than you about

I agree, and I'd like to add, it is very difficult to sort the wheat from the chaff as a client. The psych is expected to know an awful lot more than you about the whole process and subject.. so if you need to think critically about the psych, you don't really have the knowledge base to do well. Taking what a psychiatrist has said as a golden rule, has wasted time and led me down the wrong road. There is no subsitute for making up your own mind, or hearing the truth from the highest quality/rawest sources. And those sources are basically in universities and high quality education materials. Most of the information just generally available in society and delivered by 'professionals'.... is a long, long way from what an adult needs to make rational decisions.