Assessing Your Depression, Anxiety and Stress Depression, Anxiety & Stress No Login This scientific questionnaire was designed to help give you a quick snapshot of your levels of depression, anxiety and stress. Not surprisingly it's called the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale, and it's a research tool that has been validated over decades of scientific studies (Lovibond & Lovibond 1995). It has just 21 questions and takes about 3 minutes. Please read each statement and select the response that indicates how much it applied to you over the past week. There are no right or wrong answers. Don't spend too much time on any statement. To indicate how much each statement applied to you over the past week, use the following rating scale: 0: Did not apply to me at all 1: Applied to me to some degree, or some of the time 2: Applied to me to a considerable degree, or a good part of time 3: Applied to me very much, or most of the time Keep in mind that this assessment doesn't provide a clinical diagnosis. It simply evaluates and quantifies your levels of distress in the areas of depression, anxiety, and stress. 1. I found it hard to wind down * 2. I was aware of dryness of my mouth * 3. I couldn’t seem to experience any positive feeling at all * 4. I experienced breathing difficulty (e.g. excessively rapid breathing, breathlessness in the absence of physical exertion) * 5. I found it difficult to work up the initiative to do things * 6. I tended to over-react to situations * 7. I experienced trembling (e.g. in the hands) * 8. I felt that I was using a lot of nervous energy * 9. I was worried about situations in which I might panic and make a fool of myself * 10. I felt that I had nothing to look forward to * 11. I found myself getting agitated * 12. I found it difficult to relax * 13. I felt down-hearted and blue * 14. I was intolerant of anything that kept me from getting on with what I was doing * 15. I felt I was close to panic * 16. I was unable to become enthusiastic about anything * 17. I felt I wasn’t worth much as a person * 18. I felt that I was rather touchy * 19. I was aware of the action of my heart in the absence of physical exertion (e.g. sense of heart rate increase, heart missing a beat) * 20. I felt scared without any good reason * 21. I felt that life was meaningless * Submit If you are human, leave this field blank. Δ
