If you worked/were a student in healthcare at a hospital, would you consult your own psychiatric department for diagnosis and treatment/psychotherapy if you needed?

I work for a state agency that oversees mental health care. We are also a direct provider of mental health care for people without insurance or very poor insurance coverage.

I can see there could clearly be a conflict of interest for an employee to ask for care from colleagues. It’s not impossible for that to be overcome, but it would require a level of cooperation that would be difficult to maintain across all levels of the organization.

A lot depends on your insurance. I know that employees who work for Kaiser have to use the in-house insurance utilizing Kaiser resources.

Best of luck to you.

@Hawaii_Jake thank you. What do you mean by “conflict of interest”?

He means it could be questioned by upper level management.

I’d keep anything personal out of the workplace.
That would also include dating anyone that I worked with.

A conflict of interest is a situation in which the concerns or aims of two different parties are incompatible.