Incompetent doctor?

Hi. I'm new in the forum.
I've been to very few psychiatrists. I only talk regularly to one, who I trust. Once my mother sent me to one I didn't know, I talked to him for 10-15 minutes and, even despite the fact that I told him I thoroughly research the side effects of drugs and frequently freak out about them, he prescribed me a drug called lamotrigine, which is known to have as a possible side effect a deadly skin condition. I never took it. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you shouldn't take the drug as I'm no doctor, but I was unable to do it. I'm currently on other drugs prescribed by the doctor I trust that have been working for now.
The question is: to which point is this common? A psychiatrist who knows you from nowhere in 15 minutes to know exactly what to prescribe and not take into account the fact that you freak out with side effects? Is this normal, or is it incompetence? With the other psychiatrist, the one I trust, the first appointments lasted like an hour or so when she didn't know me. Is it more common for it to be this way or like the other doctor I mentioned?

In my experience it is not uncommon for a doctor to prescribe meds in the first visit- even recommend them to parents after having seen their child only once. Psychotropics are the first line of treatment for psychiatrists and its what the feel most comfortable working with- perhaps to comfortable if you ask me.

I do know that it is common practice to prescribe drugs in the first visit. What I was wondering about it the short amount of time that the appointment took for a first time, I don't know how common that is, had never happened to me before.

I don't like the fact that they rush drugs as a first-line treatment, but in my case, it's nearly impossible to live without the drugs. But for others it might not be the same and they use the same strategy on all people apparently.

Hi, tuga. There might be another explanation than incompetence. Something we can all tend to do at times is inform people of what we want them to believe about us rather than what's really true about us. For example, during a job interview we might exaggerate some of our positive qualities. As a psychologist, he is partly interviewing you to determine what can be done to help you live a more desirable life. Although you told him you carefully read about the side-effects of drugs, he doesn't know this for certain as you do. As a result, he can choose to prescribe drugs anyway. He may do this because you might take them regardless of your concerns about side-effects or if these concerns do to prevent you from taking medication, he will now know this is the case for you. He will know this because you've shown him it is the case rather than just telling him it is. In other words, maybe he believes action speak louder than words and saying you're concerned about side-effects means less to him than actually rejecting use of a prescription because of those possible side-effects.

Hi tuga. First of all, are you Portuguese? If yes, we can change PMs in our language

My first visit to psychiatrist was in a incompetent one. I don't know if this happens where you live, but in 90% of cases, when a child in Brazil makes a visit to the psychiatrist, he/she is diagnosed with ADHD and start to take Ritalin. It happened to me, and I was taking Ritalin for 5 years with no purpose. Ritalin made me feel bad, because I was taking something that don't fit in my organism. Although I always report that I don't feel good about that medication with my parents, they wouldn't listen to me(probably because they don't know nothing about mental health and don't know what would the do with me).

A doctor I visited in 2016 said that Ritalin may have made my psychosis worse.

That sounds pretty normal for a psychiatrist. Psychiatrist is pretty much synonymous with incompetent.