Posted by Christ_empowered on November 9, 2013, at 22:50:39
I live in the US. The only docs who focus on this are in public health, and they're over worked and underpaid (relative to private practice docs).Counselors, therapists, and psychologists also focus on the less severely ill. What gives? My doc was complaining about that to me at our last session. She told me that in the DSM, only 20ish pages are dedicated to severe mental illness. A couple hundred are dedicated to drug issues, apparently (I don't have a copy myself).
What's the issue? Is it like this all over the world? You'd think that psychiatry would = a focus on the severely ill...you know, the ones who really, really need meds and expertise.
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