What is done at a phycologist appoiment when they are traying to figure out if you have depression?

Lol! To sleep? Uhm anyways, a basic intake includes talking about what you’re doing there, your family, school, social network (friends, partner, any one important in your life), your physical health in very short, the basic mental health questions (eating, sleeping, any sort of obsessions, compulsions, tiredness, difficulty concentrating, seeing or hearing things that arent there, bursts of energy, anger, anxiety etc), any sort of legal issues, suicida.lity, substance abuse, has anyone ever hurt you in any way or is anyone currently hurting you, etc. Here’s the thing. Instead of looking at this as someone who is trying to figure out what is wrong with you, maybe you could just look at this as someone who you can talk to without judgement. It’s really not a big deal. There may be other assessments, so like activities (drawing a picture, etc). I doubt it, I’ve never seen it done in a mental health assessment for court, but just in case it does come up you wont be surprised. And listen, try to be as honest as possible, they tend to be overly cautious and they can tell when you’re holding stuff back. When you hold stuff back they tend to think somethings wrong and then they recommend therapy just in case. Remember, if nothing’s wrong, then you dont have to lie right? Remember, no one lives a perfect life. No one is happy 24/7. So if you try to pass off as living in a perfect world, they will know something’s up. Just be you. If you really dont have anything going on, that’s what it will say. And if you could benefit with talking to someone, what’s the big deal? You’ll just have someone on your side who sits and listens… That’s it.

Thats the thing, what more can they do about it other than putting me in theraphy? I’m alredy in theraphy.

Hmm. They could refer you for a psychiatric evaluation I suppose? Or family therapy? It’s not a substance abuse eval, so it probably wouldn’t recommend treatment for that (I guess it could recommend an evaluation). I dunno why they’re doing the assessment if you’re already in therapy. I just assumed you weren’t since you asked this question. It wont be too different from therapy, except just more questions than usual.