A:  As part of cost-reduction measures some medical systems have afforded their patients an average of just 5 to 10 minutes of psychiatric evaluation prior to being initiated on long-term psychoactive medicines, even the powerful ones such as anti-psychotic drugs, after which family practitioners are permitted to prescribe & monitor these patients.  Imagine the uproar if surgeries were being performed by physicans assistants!  I think that because we disrespect the mind & its problems so much, we are willing for any Tom, Dick or Harriet to play psychiatrist, often allowing them to prescribe long-term, potent, mind-altering, personality-altering psychoactive drugs after little more than cursory evaluation. 

 The problem with psychiatry is that it is based on a science still in its infancy. We still know so very little about brain function or the bi-directional brain-mind interplay.

A: We neither compete with nor oppose the actions of quality mental health professionals.  Our focus is purely on your personal hormonal state & how identifying & perhaps modifying it might help you with your physical & mental health & if applicable, help your psychologist &/or psychiatrist to make you promptly better on as little quantity of drug therapy as is possible.