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I've been told that the problem is most people seek out therapy when their in the depressive state and therefore the therapist doesn't (think to) ask the appropriate questions.

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Yet they're supposed to be trained to do exactly that. When you go to a medical doctor with intense abdominal pain, they ask you questions, run blood tests, maybe get X-rays or an ultrasound if needed, and then assess and review all of the information before deciding on a diagnosis. Why then, when you go to a therapist and say "I'm feeling really depressed", should a therapist promptly jump all over "clinical depression" as a diagnosis? Yet there's anecdotal evidence this happens all the time.