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It's true that psychiatry is still wishy-washy, however, the trade-off is that treatment is relatively easy with the current level of knowledge. Treatment usually involves either an anti-psychotic (± an anticholinergic), or an anxiolytic/sedative, an antidepressant, lithium carbonate or citrate, other neuron - stabilising drugs, a small choice of dugs for ADD/ADHA or/and narcolepsy, plus drugs used in the management of drug-dependency. Now, how difficult is that? In your spare time you can muse about ten or more types of serotonin/5-HT receptors, four or more dopamine receptors, mu1 & mu2, kappa and delta opioid receptors, discover that tramadol is an order of magnitude weaker than codeine as a 'narcotic' and only just barely fits the description of an opioid , and think about different antipsychotics - unconventional ones and how regularly one has to do full blood counts (CBC for USA folk); then you can ponder on the many thousands of articles and books on schizophrenia and discover that apart from the fact that dopamine is involved in some way, nobody actually knows anything about schizophrenia and that there are more views on it than there are doctors. One can fraternise with psychologists, particularly if you're a straight man and the psychologist is a pretty single, ('straight') female, or the converse if one is of an opposite persuasion. So that's all you need to know to earn money for your bread and butter. :-)
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