Can psychiatrists be expected to treat themselves before it's too late?

Trying to make a marriage or relationship work is hard enough. It’s even harder if both partners have chronic and debilitating mental illnesses. I have OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) and my husband, Lou, is bipolar (Manic-Depressive). Manic-Depression has been well known in the psychiatric field since the 1950’s and the standard treatment was a medication called Lithium. OCD had no treatment or even a name at that time. Unfortunately, psychiatry is not an exact science and it’s basically tr