eli5: What do psychiatrists do? They help you with mental issues but how? Are there any strategies, guidelines?
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Psychiatrists prescribe drugs. They are medical doctors with an M.D. and then some extra time in specialty study. There are guidelines about what the “standard of care” is but since I’m neither an M.D. nor a psychiatrist I don’t know enough to go into detail there. The strategy is that psychological drugs have been studied in clinical trials for specific aliments and have been shown to be effective, so what you have, they can prescribe something for that.
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