Alex said " think I can be depressed (I do get brief but rare transitory depressive feeling on rare occasions) and still answer a big yes to every question, whether its geared in one direction or the other."
One of my symptoms is a transient deep depression which comes on when I am tired and can go away with a short nap. I don't get that desperate exhaustion now I don't have small children but there is still a pattern when I have overdone things; sore throat and pain, aches dizziness then depression which my husband notices as a pattern while I am thinking what I am feeling is the proper response to how bad I feel. If I ignore it and rest it goes away.
In fact calling it depression, while it feel bad at the time, is like all those people who say they are fatigued like us when it just lasts a short while. It must be dreadful to feel so hopeless all the time.
Mithriel