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Psychiatrist.
1st visit.
I expect to be offered [a] talking cure. He doesn't want to talk though. He explains why I'm there. To be shown a graph demonstrating that I could most likely expect to suffer from depression at my age and to be prescribed medication. I cried all the time. Tried to argue [it's] not my fault. [That my depression was] caused by work only. He didn't want me to talk about it though. 'Get you feeling better first' he said. I tried to argue my case but shut up in the end - [antidepressant] tablets prescribed.

2nd visit
Still depressed, got dose of tablets upped, [he] told me of possibility of [my] being retired through ill health etc. I was still crying but realised that I was expected to tow the line and be a good girl...