Patients with depression should do these 7 tests when they go to the hospital.

Patients with depression should do these 7 tests when they go to the hospital.

1. Doctor's examination of the patient's current mental state: mainly collecting the patient's past medical history, specific symptoms, inner experience, etc.

Conduct a psychological test

Assessing whether a patient suffers from depression through psychological tests is generally reflected in clinical scales, including Hamilton Depression Scale, Montgomery-Eiseberg Depression Rating Scale, etc.

3. psychological ct

This is different from our previous ct examination of internal organs. The so-called psychological ct is a multi-angle and multi-level description and report analysis of patients' psychological status, which comprehensively reflects the state and types of depression through the results and has a certain clear role in its pathogenic factors.

4. head ct

Its main purpose is to comprehensively test the patient's nervous system and observe whether there are organic diseases that damage the brain and whether the patient has caused depression due to organic diseases.

5. Brain function and EEG screening

Brain function examination is mainly to systematically screen patients' brain function, while EEG recording neuron activity is to evaluate the concentration of synaptic neurons in the brain. In addition, there is a somatosensory evoked potential, whose purpose is to understand the functional state of the brain and determine whether there is any damage to the brain nerves.

6. Electrocardiogram and chest X-ray

The main purpose of electrocardiogram (ECG) is to screen the heart system and see if depression is caused by organic diseases of the heart. The same is the chest X-ray examination, the purpose of which is to rule out physical diseases.

7. Safety risk assessment and inspection: This kind of inspection is mainly to assess the suicide risk and impulsive risk of patients, see if patients have dangerous ideas and take preventive measures. If there are problems such as depression, not wanting to go out, insomnia and waking up early in the near future, and this state has not been alleviated for more than two weeks, it may be a signal of depression.

However, it is still impossible to diagnose depression only by symptoms, so if you highly suspect that you have this disease, you may wish to go to the hospital for a comprehensive examination so as to find the problem early and adjust it in time.