Before finishing up with the BDI interpretation, there is one question on the BDI that we always need to check. It is question number 9, which deals with suicide ideation. Let's see how William answered that question.

As you can see, he circled 0, "I don't have any thoughts of killing myself." Given this response and his low overall score, we probably don't need to do further assessment of suicide risk now, but it's always important to give special attention to this question. Confirm that the answer to this question is negative.