First meeting with my new psychiatrist this morning. She actually LISTENED to me, unlike the other one I had. She filled out a four-page interview form and took tons of notes. My old Pdoc said I had major depression. This one says I have dysthymia, which is harder to treat. Oh goody.

We talked about my sleep problems and how I felt great after getting some sleep on Ambien, but that it quit working after a week. She put me on a low dose of trazodone for sleep and is having me stay on Celexa for the time being because that's one of the meds they can prescribe so I can get it for $8 a month. Lexapro isn't available to them, so I'd have to continue paying $94 a month at a private pharmacy.

She's going to have me see how the trazodone works in combination with the Celexa. If I'm sleeping well but still feeling blah, she's going to switch my antidepressant and is going to have a low threshold to switch. She's not going to make me wait a couple of months since I've already been back on Celexa for a month.

She also referred me for therapy.

Dysthymia. It sounds so much more palatable than depression. Too bad it has to be resistant to treatment.