If a psychiatrist is only seeing you for 15 minutes (particularly for an early meeting) try to find another psychiatrist. I had a friend who went to a psychiatrist on his wife's insistence. After 15 minutes the psychiatrist diagnosed him with ADD and sent him home with Adderall. He needs support (but probably not medication) - and now won't see anyone based on his crap experience.

My first visit with my psychiatrist was nearly 90 minutes - and it was simply to start the Effexor taper process and look at my meds overall. My second visit with her is Wednesday and will be 45-60 minutes. I was referred to my psychiatrist by my therapist.

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