Am I depressed?

Don't believe what you read. And no, don't go to a specialist. If you go to a specialist they will find some disorder they can attach to whatever "symptoms" you tell them you have. They may even put you on medication based solely on the symptoms you tell them about. If you tell them you are anxious and have trouble sleeping, "bam" here is a medication for you to take.

Are you gainfully employed, do you exercise, eat healthy, participate in your community, have a social network?

Just went through some anxiety issues with panic attacks etc...
i work , i eat whatever i find no standar food ( healthy , junk whatever )
im quite socialized i can say ... well everything is in our mind i can say

dimiswebs wrote:.... well everything is in our mind i can say

Yes. And there are a lot of people easily convinced there is something wrong in their mind in certain cultures that embrace a pill for every ill ideology. It is a systemic problem in medicine that coupled with the Information Age has now got so many "disorders" one can choose from that the game of searching for whatever disorder you have is exploding in popularity.

In 1973 a famous experiement was conducted. It is popularly called "On being sane in insane places." Perfectly normal people as part of an experiment were diagnosed as insane, showing huge flaws in diagnosis. Did we learn as a society??? NO!!! We have gone almost completely the other direction! You can't escape a diagnosis, because it is professionally and economically more viable for psychologists to expand the number of disorders available. The DSM manual has gone from 100 or so to nearly 400 disorders in only a few decades.

Psychologists desperately, and understandably want their field to be seen medically and scientifically as significant and important as other fields, e.g. physics, neurosurgery, etc. Advancements in chemistry allow pills to treat issues and alter brain chemistry in a much wider range than ever before. Put these together and you have the dangerous cocktail that has become modern day mental health.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment