HappyG8

I am a patient who has been seeing a psychologist/counsellor and a psychiatrist. Due to personal issues, I need to see a female mental health professional, although I am a male. Based on my finding, there are mostly female psychologists/counsellors and hardly any female psychiatrists. I notice this phenomenon. Why is that so? Is it a global phenomenon?

The psychiatrists I have seen do not have strong interest in my personal issues. They seem to be only interested in the symptoms. After I have described the symptoms briefly, they start talking about the dosage of the medication. Based on my experience, it is possible for psychiatrists prescribe effective medication with just the knowledge of symptoms without understanding of the personal issues. However, is this what you should expect from a psychiatrist - that is not too keen to listen to the patients' problems? Or have I been meeting the wrong psychiatrists? For example, the psychiatrist I have been seeing for nearly a year always speaks the wrong language to me (I cannot understand Chinese). He does not remember my preferred language!