The Invention of the Phyciatrist

For many people, especially in today's day and age, there comes a time when the stress and problems in their life just become too overwhelming for them to deal with on their own. At which point, they generally seek some sort of counselling (assuming they don't just snap and go postal). It's situations like this that we see the need for the "Counsellor". These therapists focus on the mental and social aspects of the problem, and usually at this point people wouldn't call the issue an illness.

But in some cases, the problem is in fact an illness and requires more then simple counselling. For this reason we have people we call "Psychiatrists", who actually have medical training and are able to issue medication for the problem.

While the "psychiatrists" deal with chemical imbalances and other forms of mental illness, there is one area that they are unable to treat. And that is when the illness is derived in the atomic level of the individual...it is beyond a chemical imbalance...it's an inbalance of their atoms. And for this reason we require the "phyciatrist". They have the personal training of a counsellor and the medical training of the psychiatrist, but they also have the scientific know how of the physicist.

I thought about pursuing this career...but the schooling alone is like 20 years...which is just too long. I hear the pay is amazing though. If only they were around when the Incredible Hulk was having all his problems :)

Rainman