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Hey. I haven't been diagnosed with depression or anything, so I'm not sure if I have it, but I think I may do, although I don't really want to be sure I think...

Anyway, how do doctors diagnose it? Is it like if you fit a certain criteria/ tick a certain number of boxes type thing?
Or do they have different ways for different people?
And what's the difference between the depression that most people feel at sometime in their life and bad depression, I don't know what it's called-chronic depression maybe??

I don't think I'd really like to be told I had depression now (if I actually did) and think I'll go to the doctor and ask about it when I'm 16, but is there an age you have to be to be diagnosed?

Thanks, sorry, lots of questions.