yep...
But often people don't recognise the need to see a psychiatrist, and (speaking from my own experience) often psychiatrists cannot be there in the instant that you could do with a shoulder to cry on, or just an ear to listen.

And by the time you see them, those raw, dreadful feelings have been hazed over by your body's own self-defence mechanisms.

Not that psychiatric help is not useful, but sometimes, this sort of help and advice can do just as well.

And different people find different things helpful to different extents. For some, the idea of seeing a psychiatrist is just not an option. But a rant on a forum, where your identity is only revealed to the extent you wish it to be, can be amazingly cathartic.
(Psyche finishes work at the end of June! Yay!!!, Wed 29 Apr 2009, 12:04, Reply)