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So glad you had a good experience!!
Something I'd like to add for future lemmings who come to view responses is that psychiatric appointments are often shorter than therapy appointments. A psychiatrist is a doctor who will try to isolate problems/symptoms/causes and then prescribe meds or techniques to help. Therapists can't diagnose or prescribe so their efforts are based more in talking and teaching techniques to help with whatever you're dealing with. Also if you can afford it, it's great to have one of each!
Yeah, it was great. I'm on meds already, but haven't noticed any difference so far. He said I'd get a bit more anxious at first, but maybe I'm just feeling more sleepy? Don't know, my sleep hours aren't that consistent anyway.
It was a long appointment, tho, 1 hour total. I think the next ones won't be that long, as he was just getting to know me at first.