Thing is,
The window for Psychiatry is so small actually.
APs
ADs
Mood Stabalisers
Benzos
Increase or decrease.
Ive had Psychiatrists who had to look up what certain meds i was on were.
Ive learnt so much here over the years, i could become a psychiatrist Lols
Me, too. I also learnt a lot from the university library data base by searching for the research papers on psychiatry and on the antipsychotics in particular… I stored hundreds of research papers about the comparisons between different antipsychotics in my computer. At that time I was still a PhD student at a university.
I love the forum, but I love my psychiatrist, too. It might be different because I private pay. Right now I see him every two weeks. I see him for 30-60 minutes. He’s very thorough and asks me a lot of questions. Also, I can email him, and he emails me back. He’s a Christian. He’s very knowledgeable and knows a lot about every med.
I get a sense of community and not being alone in my problems.
I found a helpful supplement, I might not have otherwise known about.
In general though, I think my psychiatrist has been the most helpful during my journey of getting healthy, but that doesn’t mean this community hasn’t helped.
The only pdoc that did psychotherapy was my first one, I gained a lot of insight and learned a lot of things about my personality, what my desires were. It wasn’t so clinical, he made going to the appointments fun because he definitely was eccentric. I may not have been compliant and he raised my meds a lot, but he kept me out of the hospital. A miracle worker, if I didn’t have that foundation, my illness would be totally different. Now 5 pdocs later the one I have now found my combo and she has some pretty good expertise in how to get me to recover from what pdoc before her did with my meds. Those meds made me have total increase in paranoia for all the time I was on them. And he threatened me, not a good way to go about a practice…
As for the sz.com. The people here teach me the latest news and coping with sz and it’s nice to socialize
I’ve found I can’t have one without the other
Both help equally… although this site kinda reminds me of the partial hospitalization program I was in (with the exception of being face to face.) There were really good therapists in that program and we were educated on various mental illnesses. It was beneficial for me to talk to therapists, my Psychiatrist who runs that program, along with others with mental illnesses.
Nvm I don’t like my share
I feel lonely on this site. I refuse care from the mental health system. I had to much of bad experience. It seems they want me to keep me an idiot. Anyway not much longer and i pass on to the next world.
I started to understand this illness a lot better with this site and it helped me a lot fighting my voices, although I wouldn’t have a chance if I wasn’t medicated.
So to me it’s a daily fight and every help I can get is welcome and that’s why I’m grateful to my doc and all the people here that share their knowledge.
I can only say they are both good, although I think the doc is indispensable and all the information without treatment is useless 
Well this website doesnt give me my meds so I’m gonna have to say my pdoc 
but this is a great place for support and advice
He tells me it helps with his symptoms. But he admits that the help for his delusions is not as good as the help I get for mine.
I get like 20min every few months with my pdoc. I have schizophrenia.com all day every day. I come here for socialization and boredom and I go to him for psychopharmacology.
I see my doc every 4 weeks.
Hopefully when I’m stable on rexulti it will go to every three months.
This website is good therapy.
It’s good to talk with others and learn.
Too bad it’s all on the internet and not in real life.
I am grateful for this website and everyone who posts here.
No, I don’t. Sorry. I really like you guys, and I’d be in a terrible place without my friends on this forum, but without my pdoc, I’d most likely be dead.
edit: Hmm… Well actually, you all are the ones who tend to convince me to seek help, so I suppose I need both the forum and my pdoc equally.
Hope you will start to enjoy this forum and not feel lonely but feel community and included.
For the question…
I do not have a psychiatrist at the moment.
I recently moved and have not yet got one.
My go is going to set me up with a public psychiatrist.
I can’t afford a private one.
My pdoc sees me every month to six weeks. My appt is an hour long. I trust him very much. I get a lot out of this forum but ultimately I listen to my pdoc for what’s best for me.
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