Why a psychiatrist in the first place?

[edelsont]

There's this funny little man who lives inside my head who's always asking me questions.  Recently, he asked me one which was tangentially related to my most recent journal entry.

Q: So, you've been having some trouble getting an appointment with a psychiatrist.  But why did your doctor refer you to one in the first place?

A: Because I asked him to.

Q: Uh-huh.  And why'd you do that, Tom?

A: I've been having some short-term memory issues  Like, I go upstairs to get something, and by the time I get there, I've forgotten what the “something” was.

… (That's not entirely a bad thing, of course.  I get more exercise that way.)

… But it's still, on the whole, a pain in the butt, given that it's been happening more and more often.

Q: You have my sympathy.  But you still haven't said why you wanted to see a psychiatrist.

A: Um, I sorta thought that was obvious.  I thought maybe a change of medication would help with the memory problems.

He didn't have any more questions, so I guess I'll post this, and go on to the next item on my to-do list.

If only I could remember what that was.