Anonymous wrote:They are usually as crazy as their patients...

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Divorced women counselor/psychiatrists are the worst.

Unfortunately, recent studies seems to have similar results with little fluctuations.

I’m a psychiatrist. I don’t see this in my day to day life.

It looks like this study was done on psychiatrists who graduated from Hopkins in the 1950’s. This is before there were antidepressants, antipsychotics, or mood stabilizers. Thorazine came out in 1955, but wasn’t widely used. This is also when all of the studies came out on psilocybin (hallucinogenic mushrooms) and LSD in mental illness.

I’m going to guess that most physicians who became psychiatrists around that time were less conservative and less likely to follow social convention than their counterparts in more traditional specialties.

I recently found out inadvertently that my therapist got divorced. I do find it impacts how I regard them.

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Anonymous wrote:She had an affair with another man, I took her back--and she still left me. Ah, Lilith. I have only the gray skies of Seattle to console me.

What's that from?

Frasier

Anonymous wrote:She had an affair with another man, I took her back--and she still left me. Ah, Lilith. I have only the gray skies of Seattle to console me.

What's that from?

Anonymous wrote:Radiologists seem to have the lowest divorce rate among physicians.

Good work-life balance, no patient related emotional trauma, no access to controlled substances, better pay, less burn out, low divorce rate, low suicide rate … no wonder it’s a sort after residency option.

Radiologists seem to have the lowest divorce rate among physicians.

Its hard to tell if these percentages are accurate or current but sources look reliable.

A high suicide rate among psychiatrists (58 to 65/100,000 compared with that of the general population, 11/100,000) has been reported.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/347723

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….

^^these studies would be more interesting if you could control for variables like different life values. Maybe lawyers are more conservative as a whole whereas psychiatrists place value on individual self actualisation.

People stay in marriages for all sorts of reasons. I would say the number one reasons are stability and security. If you could have those things without monogamy then very likely the social arrangements would be a lot more varied, since from the perspective of other life values like growth we could benefit from connecting in different ways to different people as we grow.

Nurses have 33% while lawyers have a 27% divorce rate, one would assume a higher rate in lawyers.