My psychiatrist is freaking me out!! Is this normal for a psych eval???

The doc I chose for my psych eval told me she has just started working with MO patients--and she wants to be put on the PCP/surgeon's referral list for Springfield(Missouri). She told me she could not give anyone a referral without meeting with them at least 4 times (at $150 a session), and a written eval letter is an additional $135 (not covered by insurance). It made me a little suspicious, but I'm willing to do whatever is necessary. It just seems a little odd to me that within the first 20 minutes I was in her office, she had told me I was codependent (because I said my mom had anger and depression problems), and my weight problem was obviously from lack of nurturing as a child, and I would benefit more from intensive therapy than surgery. Then, when she asked if I'd even been in therapy before, and I said yes, because I was raped, she would not let it go at that, even though I said I didn't want to go into it. She asked me to describe my rape, implying that she wouldn't approve me unless I told her all about it--which was something that I was totally unprepared for, and not ready to do. After making some horribly misinformed statements about date rape not being as truamatic as a regular rape, she told me that my comorbidities (depression, fibromyalgia, and asthma) were all just results of repressed emotions, and not obesity. She also told me that the lap RNY is a bad choice, because the doctors can't see what they're doing, and I was obviously choosing the surgery for cosmetic reasons if I was concerned about the scar. When I said I wanted lap because of the shorter recovery time and lower infection rate, she just raised an eyebrow at me. I have to go back for two more visits. How do I get through this step without letting her sweeping generalizations get to me???

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