You keep waiting for the fog to clear, and it does not. Maybe your teen has gone quiet in a way that no longer feels like ordinary moodiness, or maybe you wake up already tired. Our Depression Evaluations in Wauwatosa, WI are built to find what sits underneath the heaviness, and reaching out takes no referral of any kind.
We start each evaluation from a baseline of cognitive and executive function, then build outward toward the concern that brought you in, layering in the mood and emotional measures your situation calls for. A single licensed psychologist stays with the process from start to finish, and because low mood rarely travels alone, we screen for the conditions that often accompany it.
In a younger child, depression can look like short fuses more than tears. You might notice lost interest in the toys and games they loved, changes in sleep or eating, aches with no clear cause, more withdrawal, and schoolwork that has started slipping.
With teenagers it often shows up as a low or prickly mood and a steady drift away from friends and the things they once cared about. Watch for fatigue that rest does not touch, shifts in sleep and appetite, a hopeless tone, and grades that quietly fall.
For adults it tends to settle in as a mood that stays low and a fading of interest in what used to matter. You might feel drained, notice sleep and appetite have changed, find concentration harder to hold, and carry the weight of going through the motions.
The first hour is a focused conversation. Your psychologist listens closely and collects a detailed history, tracing the path from early life to your present mood, energy, and functioning. That history is what lets us begin separating depression from conditions that can look much like it, and it guides the choice of assessments.
Next comes a battery of mood and psychological measures chosen specifically for you. In person testing typically spans 2 to 6 hours over one to two days, with self report questionnaires to complete at home and the option for someone close to you to fill out one as well. Should other conditions appear, like anxiety, ADHD, or bipolar disorder, we screen those too.
All of it, the test scores, the clinical observations, the questionnaire results, is drawn together into a thorough diagnostic report. The heart of that report is differential diagnosis, where your psychologist determines whether depression, another condition, or some combination best accounts for what you are living with, and records any cooccurring concerns.
Usually within two to three weeks you come back for feedback. Your psychologist explains the diagnosis in plain terms and offers individualized recommendations, from evidence based therapy options and lifestyle strategies to medication guidance when relevant, along with next steps shaped around you.
Not at all. Core Spring Diagnostics never requires a referral to be seen. You can contact us on your own, whenever the concern feels worth exploring.
You will sit for a clinical interview, complete a cognitive and executive function baseline plus mood and emotional measures, and be screened for related concerns such as anxiety, trauma, and bipolar patterns, all under one psychologist’s care.
A brief screening can only point out that something may be wrong. A full evaluation identifies what is genuinely going on, sorts out the conditions that imitate depression, and hands you recommendations you can put into practice.
We do. Children, teens, and adults are all welcome, and the process is adapted to whatever stage a person is in.
You leave with a plain language report and a feedback session that includes individualized recommendations and a clear route toward support.
Reach us at (414) 387 2100 and we will get you scheduled at a time that suits you, with no referral needed beforehand.
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