Diagnosis of clinical depression.

Mental health professionals and physicians are deliberate and careful when it comes to diagnosing their patients’ degree of depression. Why?  Because it takes more than a feeling of constant sadness and tearfulness to indicate that a person is suffering from depression.  Each mood disorder is characterised by a unique set of symptoms, or diagnostic criteria. A physician will take time to extract and gather all available data relating to a patient before he’ll determine whether the patient is suffering from depression, or indeed, clinical depression.

Diagnostic criteria for depression are descripions of symptoms that fall into one of … Continue Reading