Are you taking Psychiatry too seriously?

Are you a psychiatrist or a psychiatry resident?

Do you suspect you are taking psychiatry too seriously?

Here are some alert signs, so be warned

1. When your grandmother complains about anything (arthritis, head trauma, acute myocardial infarction, about your country's economic situation) you say "That is all psychosomatic" and prescribe her an antidepressant.
2. You can understand at least twenty percent of every word spoken by a psychoanalyst. This includes "Good morning", "Good afternoon" and "Good night".
3. You start to think that Jesus Christ (Mohammed for the Arabian) actually speaks to people (Just imagine the quantity of prophets that were lost, just because they were born on twentieth century!!!)
4. You want to do psychotherapy to your neighbour's dog, who, in your opinion suffers from "separation anxiety", just because he keeps on barking and barking and barking
5. You fall asleep thinking about dopaminergic pathways, noradrenergic pathways and serotoninergic pathways... and wake up thinking: "Gee, I am having a hypnopompic hallucination")
6. The sentence "Narcisic wound" is in your vocabulary, even when you don't want to show yourself up
7. In the Carnival, instead of firing your water gun like everybody else you amuse yourself giving haloperidol tablets to the swans in the garden, watching their necks' behaviour
8. You start blaming your mother for everything: the leg you have broken, the girlfriend/boyfriend that has left you, the upraise in the oil prices, the war in Iraq, and so on, and so on
9. You start diagnosing personality disorders to every living being, including the plants in your backyard