Okay, I hate to talk about this, but someone brought it up. I was discussing this in another online forum and someone, who claimed to be a therapist, was trying to convince everyone else there that I was lying. But here it is.
When I was 18, I saw a university counsellor. He ordered me to see an on-campus psychiatrist with no explanation. I was ordered by the psychiatrist to take a medication with no explanation whatsoever as to what sort of medication it was or why I was taking. I obtained the case notes years later: they were treating me for schizophrenia. The only problem is that there were no symptoms: no delusions (that includes paranoia), no ideas of reference, no hallucinations (that includes voices). Nothing. The medication was a nightmare and actually caused derealization, panic, and visual hallucinations. I was kept on the medication for 6 months until I began to develop tardive dyskinesia in my tongue. The medication had very disruptive effects on my life with no value whatsoever.
Okay, that's what happened. Call me a liar, but I'm not. Ever since I found out what happened, which was over a decade later, I have been very suspicious of the mental health professions.
In case you're skeptical about case notes being kept for over a decade: well, they were. Don't ask me to explain it, but they obviously were.
