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[quote=Anonymous]People go into psychiatry for many reasons, but I’d say a much higher percentage of psychiatrists have mental illness in their family, and/or generational trauma and abuse and they go into the field to understand it better and to empower themselves.  I’d also say a higher percentage of psychiatrists are well, for a lack of a better word, weird. You kind of have to be to be able to deal with so many mentally unwell patients and families on a daily basis without judgment or without it wearing you down- it requires an acceptance of a much wider range of “normal” to be able to help people.

It is also an occupation that can pretty much sap you of any emotional bandwidth so that you don’t have anything left to bring home to your spouse.

And finally, there is usually a much higher rate of some kind of unhealthy coping mechanism beginning from childhood to deal with the mental illness and trauma. One that is not always overcome through education in psychiatry.  Whether it is an addiction, eating disorder, or some other way of coping….[/quote]

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