I had my first visit with a psychiatrist just over a month ago, which was the initial ask me a bunch of questions for a total of about 15-20 minutes(which he told me would take at least half an hour) and tell me "Yup, you most likely have ADHD". He then asked me if I had any questions..but of course since I was already uncomfortable with the fact that I had to repeat myself again to someone I JUST met, I had very few and didn't ask a lot of what I wanted to.

I think I sort of blank out when I'm in his office...as I do with any doctor, weird.

Then he sent me home with a checklist and told me to have a family member run through it and myself and bring it back in two weeks. So I went back and sure enough, he looked at it, and confirmed it, then proceeded to ask me if I knew what it meant. Well, duh, of course I did. The rest was kind of a blur, then he told me there's medication and talk therapy that can be done to help. He went over a couple medications and suggested one, then gave me a choice. I told him to put me on whatever he thinks would work for me, so he put me on Concerta. I was in and out of there within about 10 minutes..and I'm not exaggerating.

Fast forward to yesterday, when I had my 3rd appointment with him, after being on Concerta for about 3 weeks (18mg for the first week then 36mg after that). I went in there, he asked me how I was doing, to which I said I was fine blah blah blah but I don't think I can spill my life problems to him because that's not what I was there for, so. He asked me how it was going, medication and stuff, and I told him I don't notice too much of a difference other than my focus is a bit better, but I'm a bit more irritated and easily upset. He just wrote these things down..didn't really give an explanation as to whether he thought it was working properly or not, because I don't feel any different. Told him I felt less focused after doing 4 days of classes in a row where I had to get up really early and take my pill at an irregular time, and I was tired by 3pm, to which he said that it lasts generally about 8 hours, and that I should take it before I know I'm going to need it. Which won't help me if I have a long day, but I haven't had to deal with that, yet.

Losing track here, sorry, just needed to give a bit of detail as to what he is like, just in case maybe there is a pdoc that could be doing more?

He recommended me a book at the 2nd appointment, which I bought. He asked me(yesterday) if I had found it and if I had read it and I told him I had started it, and of course he kind of chuckled at that. I then proceeded to ask him about how he mentioned therapy (talk therapy) and if that's available for me to do and he said yes but he wanted me to read the book first and said "and then we will talk about the book and ways you can help ease your difficulties every day".

Does that mean that if I read the book the next time I see him we'll be discussing it? I've never had a visit with him that's been longer than 20 minutes, and I always feel that he is sort of in a hurry to get me out of there. He's not rude, and he does ALWAYS ask me at the end if there's anything else I have to ask him or want to say, but I just don't know WHAT to ask or say...my family doesn't really understand what ADHD is and I honestly(seriously though) don't think they really care, or really think it's a big deal.

My question basically, is are these visits supposed to be short? And are there things I need to be telling him or asking when I see him? I sort of feel alone in this, in the sense that I forget to write down how I'm feeling, and my family members ask me rarely how my meds are, but I just don't know what to tell them.

*I still get very frustrated, and my regular doctor even had to ask me if I had been to see the psych, because he hadn't sent over my files yet..she had no idea that I've started meds. She was the one who told me(not the actual psych) that it takes about 6-8(something like that) weeks for medication to have a full affect on you and for you to be able to tell that it's doing everything it's going to do.