You've gotten into the mental health system, and these words are used in trying to manage you to conform to society's expectations.
They have a standard set of terms. So what happens is you become managed (psychiatrist, psychologist, psychotropic medication, and possibly government assistance, which is also a form of management)
Once that happens, they provide medication and therapy. If they like you, and you're polite, and say they are helping, and make their job easier, then you are compliant, making progress, and working hard on mental health recovery.
If you aren't nice to them, if you aren't polite, if they don't like you, if you aren't getting better or family members are complaining to them, then you are non-compliant, not engaging, lack insight, have personality issues (it's not mental illness; you're just an asshole), and then they also increase medications.
Medications often consist of either things to increase serotonin (obliviousness) or they prescribe tranquilizers (just sleep through your life and emotions; watch TV; be happy and sedated), and if you say you are happier and no one complains, then they say you are compliant and showing insight and say you're improving.
If you don't, they prescribe more medications, say you lack insight, prescribe harsher medications, etc.
The trick with all of this is the harsher medications make it harder to think clearly, so you're more likely to say offensive things and stupid things and be oblivious. It's harder to navigate social situations when you are on psychiatric drugs if intelligence is required, unless you are so incredibly drugged that nothing bothers you, and you get criticized so much when you express your feelings that you just shut down and don't talk about your feelings.
The best psych patients are somewhat good-natured, like being on tranquilizers and other SSRIs, and are cool with watching TV all day, don't talk too much about emotions unless asked or do it in a very mellow sedated way that doesn't bother people, and collect money from the government.
Once you are in the system, it is incredibly hard to get out, especially if there is family involvement. Society will say you are mental and need to be sedated and drugged. Your parents will view it as more irresponsibility if you stop taking drugs and stop being engaged in mental health.
Another thing to keep in mind is these people get paid very large amounts to manage the lower classes of society, and by and large psychiatric patients are lower class because they have no money, unless they come from a wealthy family.
Really, the only way to get out is to get a full-time job, work, and get away from the area where you had a psychiatrist and where your family is. Family and psychiatry have a hard time blocking someone from getting a full-time job; they can say you're not ready, but if you find someone to hire you and you're interested, it's not socially acceptable for them to say "No you're not allowed to work." It's hard for them to threaten you with more drugs or involuntary treatment if you look for work. It's also best if possible to find a full-time job first and tell them after. You literally have to tell them, after you find the job, "I have a full-time job and am moving farther away. I no longer qualify for government programs and can't afford to pay you and will be farther away. I will be looking for another psychiatrist and have called several." And then you change your number so they can't welfare check track you by cell phone, and you stop paying them, and if your parents are paying them, you can't control that but you don't tell the psychiatrist in person you are stopping, you tell them over the phone once you start working and have an apartment or are renting a room. You also need a new bank account if your parents know where your bank is and you move as far away as possible, ideally commute to work and live farther away, linked to the NEW number, not the old one.
And if you do this, you have to exercise. This doesn't work without exercise. And you can't do drugs or alcohol because your brain is already frail. That's the best way to deal with it if you can deal with full-time work.
If you can't deal with full-time work, realize these mental health professionals never help people and just help society by managing people in most cases. Unless you are a wealthy woman in her late 30s who needs to find introspection and closure and can pay someone quite well and wants to talk, most of these people are there to manage weird people in society.
Another user on SaSu actually said this idea better than me, and I realized it was exactly true, so I am slightly stealing that person's idea when saying this, probably in a way they wouldn't like (sorry).
But mental health professionals will treat you much much better if you complement them, make their job easy, and don't try to express yourself in any way that seems over the top in most cases. If you are trying to be on disability and just get medication and therapy and don't want to work because of too many issues, that's an easier way to approach it. And every situation is different, but that's my cynical take on it, and I am very biased against psychiatry and psychology, so take that bias into account. My perspective my be not the same as someone who doesn't have extremely negative personal experiences.
Vigorous exercise, like running, plus no drugs or alcohol, plus community involvement (volunteering, support groups, etc) may be better than what the mental health industry offers, but there have never been any studies funded to test this because no one has any interest in proving that psychiatry and psychology often offer only little value because most people prefer that weird people are drugged up and managed.
