To diagnose depression, the following 4 aspects are among the clinical: 1. Medical history taking. The medical history of depressed patients can be taken to understand the history of the onset of depression, the clinical manifestations, medication use, and treatment effects. At the same time, special attention should be paid to the self-injurious and suicidal thoughts and behaviors of depressed patients. 2. Psychiatric examination should be paid attention to when taking medical history. Psychiatric examination is very meaningful for the diagnosis of depression, especially for thinking, emotion, volitional activity and other related aspects should be carefully examined. This includes the patient’s depressed mood and related content, the content of thinking, the content of thinking forms and the content of future volitional behavior activities, etc. 3. Scale measurement. For patients with depression, the Hamilton Depression Inventory and the Self-Rating Depression Inventory are commonly used in clinical practice. The symptoms and severity of depression can be assessed through scale measurement. 4. Exclusion diagnosis should be done, especially for older patients and patients with physical illnesses, the differentiation of depression due to organic diseases should be done. The diagnosis of depression can be made through the above 4 aspects.
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