Thank you for your story. I have just a little clarification : you can find what you are calling a ‘psychiatric disorder’ and ‘mental illness’ is quite a banal and everyday event: go to you local BDSM parlor, or have a native Indian tell you about their rituals. The identification of humans and animals is an age old affair of the plasticity of the ego: it implies a kind of anthropomorphism/physiomorphism that only becomes a ‘mental illness’ in the theory of the psychiatrist. What I would find to be of a more complex, rare, and horrifying nature, is to examine the identifications of the psychiatrists themselves. Who do they think they are? Gods?