Art of Storytelling The Human Experience of Being a Psychiatrist (2016)

The story of who psychiatrists are today what they do and what they value has been told by almost everyone but them Psychiatrists are notoriously private cautious about revealing personal information and noticeably absent in the media What has been the consequence of this If you dont tell your story someone else will tell it for you Mental illness is the number one cause of disability worldwide however many patients still fear coming to see a psychiatrist that they will be overmedicated not listened to not understood not cared for or worse maybe the psychiatrist will see how crazy they are and lock them up The stereotype of being crazy is equated with being dangerous weird scary and ostracized and in some ways so is being a psychiatrist