Being diagnosed with depression in the very first 15 minutes of talking. I (27m) saw a psychiatrist for the first time in my life last Thursday. She barely tried to get to know what I’m actually feeling or to get to the bottom of it. She instead was focusing on the obvious depressive symptoms I may have. She was kind of interrogating me and I didn’t even talk about a fraction of what was bothering me. She diagnosed me with depression within 15 minutes of talking and prescribed me an antidepressant and said I should hop on it for 6 months to a year and gave me an appointment in two months to see if it’s working. I was like.. “Is that it..?”

Is that the norm? I’ve never been to therapy before and I must admit this was so underwhelming to me and I feel like I don’t trust her opinion and I don’t want to take that antidepressant. I feel helpless and I don’t know what to do anymore.