I was on my 4th overdose when the hospital psychiatrist asked me for my history.
Asked my first depressive episode, aged 14, asked my family's history, brother adopted with me had kept himself in a dark room for many yrs.
Major depression was dx. I can't argue with that. Even then he didn't prescribe meds. Maybe if he had my 5th overdose might not have hapoened. This one took me to deaths door and the local mental health hospital. There I sat like king Arthur around a table with many psychiatrists who finally prescribed me medication. Told me it was be for the long term.
Been on them ever since and no more suicide attempts.
T also asked me for my history when we begun..
So I'm not sure where these amateurs prefossionals I read about are. Major depression and situational depression are well documented.