It must be incredibly frustrating to go on a first appointment to a psychiatrist, who you think is going to be able to understand and help you, and to run into someone like that instead, someone who imposes his ideas on you and listens without really hearing. I once went to someone like that. After two visits I knew I couldn't go back and so I drove an hour and a half to continue to see my old pdoc -- it was worth it to see someone who HEARD me when I spoke and who believed me if I said an event was -- or was not -- important in my life.

I agree with googley and Rohag that it is really important for you to find someone else, whatever you have to do. I know that that might be especially difficult to do when you're suffering from the symptoms of depression, but my opinion is that you'll be wasting your time if you go back to this doctor.

With your history of CSA I think you also need a therapist who has experience with adult survivors of CSA, someone you feel comfortable with who can help you to work through that terrible legacy. Maybe you already have this, I don't know. My feeling is that you need both a good pdoc and a good therapist.

As I said, I once had an experience similar to yours. It left me feeling not only frustrated, but it actually worsened my depression -- at the time it was hard to hold onto the reality that I was right and that this doc just had no clue. Most people who are depressed are full of self-doubt as it is and doctors are supposed to be experts and professional. So I really feel for you.

Good luck and let us know what happens next.

BlueOak