Yeah I always found A&E doctors to be the least informed about mental health and always ones to say things like "did you do this because you were bored?" and the favourite "you're too intelligent to do this/you've got your whole life ahead of you/you'll feel better when you've grown up a bit".
I remember seeing the CAMHs psychiatrist when I was 16, and she asked the usual kind of questions about if I was eating, sleeping and so on. She asked if my daily activity and interest in things had decreased in the past couple of months. I said, no not in the past couple of months because I stopped going out and seeing people ages ago. I said I had long found no interest in previously pleasurable activities. But she kept asking if it was in the past 2 months. So I said, no, things could have not got worse than 0 in the past 2 months! So she wrote in her report that I had not had any loss of interest in activities and had not changed my behaviour in the past 2 months and due to this and other things (that she misunderstood) she concluded I was not in need of mental health intervention.
That's the one that really angered me and I really went downhill after that but that's another story!
(Obviously with all doctors and psychiatrists you get a minority who misunderstand, but I've by far had overwhelmingly positive experiences)
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