Title: What you should tell a person with depression
Course: Non-Communicable Diseases, Emergency Care and Mental Health Part 2 - Ethiopia (Full)

What you should tell a person with depression

There are four issues you need to raise with your patient:

1. Explore why the person might have become unwell
2. What might and might not help with the depression
3. What happens after you refer a person for further assessment and treatment
4. Be prepared to discuss whatever questions the person may have.

Each of these points will be discussed in more detail in the sections below.