How will a psychiatrist determine whether I am clinically depressed?

How will a psychiatrist determine whether I am clinically depressed?

There are not specific psychiatric tests for determining clinical depression. The clincal depression diagnosis is based on the collection of information during psychiatric interviews, information based on a patient's family history and, if applicable, prior psychiatric treatment. Sometimes there are tools, such as different rating scales that can help the psychiatrist assess various symptoms in a systematic way in order to determine possible clinical depression, but this is just another aspect of the overall data that is considered.