I've not been diagnosed with a mood disorder, only an autism spectrum disorder, but I show symptoms of a mood disorder, and am going to therapy, and my primary care doctor has been wondering about trying me on an anti-depressant.

When I was 19 I dealt with both death of my grandparents and emotional abuse.

Immediately at that point I started showing depressive symptoms, though at first grief as well of course. I've never shown enough for a major depressive disorder diagnosis from my own research, but I've not been diagnosed with anything.

I'm 23 now, having difficulty figuring out anything to do that I used to enjoy, a lot of difficulty with hopelessness, fits of crying in guilt and despair, and just generally having a mood that doesn't fit how I used to be. Everything that I've researched has pretty strongly suggested that I fit dysthymia symptoms.

However, it specifically was in response to that trigger. Does that make sense for a depression-type mood disorder?

I need to talk to my therapist, and my doctor about it more (my therapist knows individual symptoms, but not that I'm thinking this diagnosis might describe me, my doctor knows that the general depressed mood), but I'm having difficulty with it, because communication in person instead of online and in text is difficult for me.

So, does this make sense? Or should I look more elsewhere even more so. I need to talk to doctors either way.