Math and Psychiatry don't mix.

Math and Psychiatry don't mix.

Math joke.

A mathematician is taking his written exam to become a firefighter.

The second to last question is: you come to a burning building, what do you do?

Put the fire out, he answers.

The last question is,"You come to a building you've been called to, but it's not on fire, what do you do?"

Set it on fire, he answers.

Later, the examiner calls him in to ask about that last answer. Why would you set it on fire?

Because, says the mathematician, then it's reduced to a problem I know how to solve.

I think you are smart enough to carry the analogy over to psychiatry and a patient they have to treat. Setting the patient on fire/ forcing drugs on them, because then its reduced to a problem they have been trained to solve.