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A comment on The Founder’s Battle for Mental Health. Parent comment

Re:The Founder’s Battle for Mental Health by munificent on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @02:05PM (#10896637)
> Skip the travel, spiritual enlightenment, and other ad-hoc treatment; cut to the chase - visit a psychiatrist.

A statement like this presumes all psychiatrists are equally good and roughly interchangeable. That hasn't been my experience at all. The variance is quite high and seems to be patient-dependent.

So better advice is, "visit a series of psychiatrists until you find one that works well for you".

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Re:The Founder’s Battle for Mental Health by DenisM on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @03:30PM (#10897243)
Yeah, that works, although it might be quite tedious. There are several ways to speed up the convergence:

- Ask your friends for a referral. If you're ill, chances are that many of your friends are too - age, environment, and upbringing are contributing factors.

- Ask a doctor in an adjacent field whom you know is competent. Rinse, repeat. This is also know as 'optimistic routing'. Works wonders in any field of medicine, and likely beyond.

- Ask the local medical board. (Never tried it, but it should work).

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