I suffer from severe depression and have had so many issues with psychiatrists personally that I blamed on myself until I meet someone who is a psychiatric resident. 

Hearing how they talk about patients and the mentally ill is horrific. And it’s not just this one person. Their co-residents are just as awful. 

They hate their patients, they belittle them, they say most of their patients are just dumbasses. 

Like holy shit how are you supposed to get help from a group of people who think you are less than because you suffer. They’re whole job is to treat mental illness! And they don’t even seem to think their patients even are mentally ill. 

On a personal level, these people are nice and normal - like truly they are. But as soon as they start talking about their patients every ounce of humanity and empathy is void. 

I get it, med school is hard and it sucks and it beats the goodwill out of them. But there is something wrong if the system creates generations of jaded doctors who hate the people they are going to spend their careers treating.