Sometimes I guess, it's just a matter of medical training. I have a good friend who is a psychiatrist, and we've sometimes had discussions about his medical training and how he works.

I was really fascinated when I came to understand that what he's trained to do is ask series of set questions. He has most of them so well memorized they just fall off his tongue.

After that, it's a numbers game, evidence-based medicine. Enough "correct" answers leads to a potential diagnosis — after further investigation and refinement, of course.

To be fair, my friend is a hospitalist rather than a therapist, so rapid initial triage is important to his work. He might behave differently in a deeper patient relationship.

But still, when a doctor is trained to ask certain questions, then those questions might take on exaggerated significance in their mind, even though the questions are only supposed to be a statistical diagnostics aid.

But whatever happens, you know yourself better than any doctor ever could. And that's something else my friend stresses: A good doctor listens carefully and does not judge.