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Yeah, why would you trust a professional with legal responsibilities and a duty of care when you can go to an anonymous forum where I'm sure everyone tells the truth all the time and always has your best interests at heart!
Obviously I'm being facetious and I get your point that taking to your peers is very important, but careful not to slip into the rampant anti-intellectualism and distrust of "so-called experts" which fuels all the insane conspiracy shit we see all over the internet nowadays.
Experts or authorities?
Here some conspiracy for you: A lot of psychiatry (not all) is made up shit rooted in old white guys' ideas about how to keep unruly youngsters and women in check. The DSM is a vague symptom list sponsored by the pharma industry and gets changed every few years or so (glad they took the gay out).
I consider the output of (the scientifically connected side of) psychiatry, together with the output of my peers, together with my own perception when I make decisions about my own wellbeing - if that alone is anti-intellectual and conspiratic to you, you might be adhering to scientism rather than science.
Also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
A lot of psychology and psychiarty is not proper science. I'm not saying it doesn't have value, but people should be sceptical. Of course, don't go the other way and join scientology.
I think a lot of mental health problems are due to SLS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shit_life_syndrome
If suspect that if we gave the mentally ill 2k and told them to go on a nice holiday, buy some healthy food, take care of their most urgent bills, many of them would be better off than after a mandatory hold in an underfunded mental health ward or a prescription of xanax from an overworked general practicioner.
High quality mental health care is probably far better, but that's not what most people have access to.