Dr. Siobh?n McHale:

It is a measure of the stigma. If people were told somebody was being offered another opinion in terms of medical assessment and a treatment for their condition, whether it was multiple sclerosis, or whatever, people would be delighted. However, there is stigma attached to being asked to meet a psychiatrist and the association of potentially having a treatable component of their suffering seen to is considered to be a negative. These are the challenges to how we interface with the separation between medical and psychiatric disorders.