gravyyy: I won't file a complaint against the pdoc b/c I mean she does screen patients and I didn't tell the full truth so I can't blame her for that.

Here's what I (personally) find offensive about the way the situation was handled. If the receptionist had said to you when you called, "The doctor does not work with patients that have experience with..." that would have allowed you to say, "Thank you very much, perhaps this doctor is not the one for me then." You could have spared yourself the entire ugly ordeal.

Instead however, you were asked to make yourself vulnerable by sharing private and personally revealing information with a staff member in a manner that made you feel exposed and uncomfortable; you were then penalized for not doing so in the exact manner the doctor had demanded. There was absolutely no regard for who you were or how you felt about the situation and there was a lack of respect for your basic privacy.

Sometimes it's not worth filing a complaint because the other party just isn't going to get it. However, there is a place on the net called doctorscorecard.com where you can make an anonymous consumer report of your experience with both good and bad doctors. If you wanted to, you could make use of that site for sharing your recent experience and doing some research on psychiatrists in your area. You may very well find an excellent psychiatrist to work with as a result and thereby spare yourself another distressing visit like the one you had; you might even spare someone else the discomfort of repeating your experience with that particular doc.