Medscape Survey: Psychiatry least likely to have happy marriages

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Medscape may be painting a broad picture with their questions but any thoughts on why Psychiatry ranks so low when it comes to marital happiness. Are there issues specific to Psychiatry that are difficult on marriages?

 

[Old&InTheWay]

Maybe more psychiatrists realize that happiness doesn't exist.

 

[Higifigi]

Just potentially matched ~16 minutes ago and then I read this. Killing my vibe here

Edit: If I had to speculate, I think it may have to do with training that requires finding the faults in thinking patterns and/or behavior. It may be difficult to turn that off for some people in their personal lives. But what do I know, I'm just a stupid M4

 

[Armadillos]

Medscape: Medscape Access

Medscape may be painting a broad picture with their questions but any thoughts on why Psychiatry ranks so low when it comes to marital happiness. Are there issues specific to Psychiatry that are difficult on marriages?

I see this stat thrown around occasionally and never know how to interpret because seems to be exact opposite of what I see around me. Maybe there is some specific part of country with bunch of psychiatrists in bad marriages?

 

[TexasPhysician]

I see this stat thrown around occasionally and never know how to interpret because seems to be exact opposite of what I see around me. Maybe there is some specific part of country with bunch of psychiatrists in bad marriages?

Ditto. Of all the psychiatrists I know, I can think of 3 that are divorced and 2 of them were married to each other.

 

[wolfvgang22]

Same. Most psychiatrists I know are happily married.

 

[mymembernames]

Interesting...

 

[OldPsychDoc]

You'd have to ask MrsPsychDoc about the "happily" thing, but she's certainly tolerated me for a long time!

 

[Merely]

Just potentially matched ~16 minutes ago and then I read this. Killing my vibe here

Edit: If I had to speculate, I think it may have to do with training that requires finding the faults in thinking patterns and/or behavior. It may be difficult to turn that off for some people in their personal lives. But what do I know, I'm just a stupid M4

Match isn’t till March 15..?

 

[jungianANAL]

Jokes on them, my marriage was on the rocks before I even decided I wanted to go into this field

 

[Higifigi]

Match isn’t till March 15..?

Rumor has it the match takes an entire 17 seconds to calculate and the remaining time is spent verifying the integrity of the results.

 

[whopper]

Given that there's no further data given I don't know how much to read into this. If anything I figured surgeons would've had the least successful marriages given their work schedule, poor sleep, which often times leads to irritability.

Quite a few times my wife and I would get into arguments earlier in our marriage. I think a lot of it was immaturities we had outgrow. She's a doctor in counseling and yes sometimes the psychobabble would enter the arguments making them far far worse. They either were right on the mark which can be quite a sting, or they were one of using our knowledge of psychobabble inappropriately to make our argument sound better than it really was cause our own emotional investment was blinding us to better approaches. This is a reason why therapists needs to have some emotional distance from their patients.

I've noticed quite a few people who enter the mental health field have emotional issues themselves. Maybe some of this translates into those results. I'd also not delve too much into this unless there's more data to add than just the above raw number.

 

[calvnandhobbs68]

Is there anything Medscape won't survey?

 

[OldPsychDoc]

Is there anything Medscape won't survey?

If you don't keep churning out marginally interesting content, there's nothing to generate clicks for your pharma ads.

 

[UTsksk]

Just potentially matched ~16 minutes ago and then I read this. Killing my vibe here

Edit: If I had to speculate, I think it may have to do with training that requires finding the faults in thinking patterns and/or behavior. It may be difficult to turn that off for some people in their personal lives. But what do I know, I'm just a stupid M4

I'm only a psych intern, but for some reason people seem to think I'm paying more attention than I really am when I'm not with patients. People seem to think I psychoanalize all day when all I'm really thinking about is food and wondering when I get to go home.

 

[Shufflin]

My psychiatrist friend in China says the female psychiatrists there enjoy the lowest divorce rates, while the male psychiatrists have rather high divorce rates. Chew on that one for a minute.

 

[FlowRate]

I think that slide is more correctly titled "Percentage of Specialty Respondents Who Said Their Marriage Was 'Very Good.'"

It seems to me that psychiatrists are more likely to be aware of ambivalence/nuance and less likely to respond to a survey in a black and white fashion. Edit: the individual specialty data is available and yeah, it's not that more psychiatrists rate their marriage as "bad" or "very bad" but a slight uptick in "fair" and "good".