What questions are a psychiatrist/ps. supposed to ask to diagnose if a person has a mental illness?

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here are some: Do you hear voices or see things that others don't? Do you feel depressed? Do you ever feel the opposite of depressed, overly exicted? Do you ever think about killing yourself or others? Do you have a plan? Do you have intrusive thoughts? Etc.

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They'll ask, are you suicidal?

prob just general life history questions, or possibly the persons medical and family background.sometimes illness like this runs in the family. That's too broad a question because there are so many illnesses out there requiring many questions!
There is no specified 'set of questions' that mental professionals have.
They will ask you your symptoms, if you recognize any, then they'll ask you about your daily life and how you feel or react to certain things, foods, enviroment..oh, dear..to many to try to write here.

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It's a whole packet of questions -a lot are repeated in a "different way" to catch discrepencies.

i just remember my psychologist (who was heavily accented) asking me over and over are you suicial or homicidal? That day I wasn't but if he asked me one more time I might have been!

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