The results are in, and the public detests psychiatrists.
A study published by Cambridge University Press on January 7 analyzed hundreds of thousands of tweets over a period of 15 years and found that psychiatrists garnered sky-high levels of negative perceptions.
The researchers collected and analyzed all tweets—301,346, to be exact—that included any of these keywords: psychiatry, psychology, neurology, mental health, psychiatrist, psychologist or neurologist.
One came out as the overwhelming loser in the public’s eyes.
“‘Psychiatrist’ had a consistently higher proportion of negative perceptions,” the study read.
“To be successful in a career as a psychiatrist, you need to be inherently a sociopath.”
The findings should come as no surprise to psychiatrists. According to one Gallup survey, the public’s trust in psychiatrists rides at a dismal 38 percent, occupying about the same bottom-feeder level as journalists and politicians.
The conclusion of the January 7 study was, “This research underscores the importance of improving the public perception of psychiatrists.”
Both the results of the study and the foregoing underwhelming conclusion about it were announced in a tweet from the Digital Psychiatry Special Interest Group at the Royal College of Psychiatrists. It produced responses such as these:
- “To be successful in a career as a psychiatrist, you need to be inherently a sociopath.”
- “I made a communication plan for you. I hope you find this helpful.” [Smiling poop emoji with a ribbon on top]
- “You need to look at the harm your profession causes to patients. Address that and your image might improve.”
The harm that the $375 billion global profession of death wreaks on patients must indeed be looked at. As the years pass, psychiatric havoc has become more difficult to sweep under the rug. This year, in the United States alone, dozens of psychiatric institutions have been exposed as bastions of abuse, violence, rape and criminal neglect—all cloaked in the guise of arrogance born of fear.
Since 1965, 1.1 million people have died in psychiatric hospitals—nearly twice as many as all the soldiers killed in battle in all of America’s wars.
- “You think this highlights the need to improve public perception? Couldn’t be an indicator that you’re f—king crap at doing your jobs and you routinely ruin people’s lives, no? Arrogant morons.”
- “Read the room, clowns.”
- “Perhaps be less violent. Just a thought.”
The study revealed that “mental health” had the highest positive response and “psychiatrist” had the highest negative response.
Takeaway: Psychiatrists have little, if anything, to do with mental health.
- “Your entire field has become a joke. You push quack theories, fast-tracking people towards drugs and medical procedures that help no one except private companies, which make huge profits from people’s suffering.”
- “It’s sickening how oblivious you are to such obvious issues.”
- “Zero self-awareness.”
- “Gaslighting themselves (and society) into believing they are somehow doing good work.”
Psychiatrists have proven again and again that theirs is not a profession but a swindle that accomplishes the precise opposite of what is advertised (help). The gaslighting extends to themselves as well as their victims, but any psychiatrist with a brain cell need only look at the chaos and wrecked lives around him to know that he and his colleagues are despicable frauds.
Small wonder that psychiatrists have one of the highest suicide rates of any profession.
- “Keep electrocuting people and calling it therapy.”
- “Stop hiding psychotropic drug damage behind misdiagnoses, you loathsome institution.”
- “The only way to improve public perception of psychiatrists is to get rid of psychiatry as it stands right now.”
True enough. Psychiatrists’ only hope of gaining the public’s trust—or at least being acceptable as a profession—is to get rid of psychiatry and cease to be psychiatrists as they are today. People who take money to hurt people never last very long, and that’s what the psychiatrist does.
Possibly, that’s too painful a truth for the average psychiatrist to even consider.
Possibly, the love of money is a stronger draw than the love of people.
In that case, the abuse and death will continue until honest people and law enforcement lock up the profession and its hawkers.
In the meantime, want to dress up the public perception of psychiatrists? Try switching your old logo for a smiling poop emoji with a ribbon on top.
