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Life is full of good times and bad, happiness and sorrow. But if you've been feeling "down" for more than a few weeks or are having difficulty functioning in daily life, you may be experiencing more than just the "blues". You may be suffering from a common yet serious illness called clinical depression.
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The good news is clinical depression is highly treatable. Most people with depression, however, do not seek the professional help they need -- often because they don't know the symptoms, think depression will go away on its own, or are embarrassed to talk about how they're feeling. One of the quickest and easiest ways to determine whether you have symptoms of depression is by taking a free, confidential depression-screening test.
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HANDS Depression Screening Tool
Would you like to perform face to face depression screenings? If you are interested in obtaining a paper copy of the HANDS depression screening tool, please contact Kate Bell at phone number (480) 367-6937 or e-mail at kbell@emsysonline.com. If you already have a copy of the HANDS tool, you may click here to view an online training about how the tool is used.
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Screening tests, such as the one on this web site, are not intended to provide a diagnosis for clinical depression.
But they may help identify any depressive symptoms and determine whether a further evaluation by a medical or mental health professional is necessary.
As with any other illness, you should see your doctor if you think you might have symptoms of depression.
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