Anxiety and Depression Test

Racing thoughts at night, a tight chest before an ordinary call, mornings that feel heavy before they start: when all of this arrives at once, it is hard to tell what you are dealing with. This anxiety and depression test separates the two threads and puts them side by side. Many people who search «am I depressed» find that worry plays a bigger part than they thought.

What the test measures

The questionnaire has two scales of twenty statements each, and together they add up to your overall level. The anxiety scale covers a body on alert, worries that return after you put them down, restlessness and the sense that trouble is close. The depression scale covers heavy days, faded interest, pulling away from people and a harsh replay of your own mistakes. Sleep, appetite, focus and energy appear on both sides, because each condition touches them in its own way. Anxiety symptoms tend to speed you up and keep you scanning for danger, while depression slows the day down and takes the colour out of it. Each scale is scored on its own, so a high result on one never hides the other. That is the point of the test: you see whether one side leads, or whether both are running at once.

How to take it and read the result

There are 40 short first-person statements about the last two weeks. For each one, choose how often it was true, from never to very often. Some statements describe the opposite, calmer experience and count in reverse. Most people finish in about ten minutes, and the first answer that fits is usually the right one. When you finish, you get:

• your overall level from 0 to 100, which opens the result;
• an anxiety score and a depression score side by side on the same scale from 0 to 80;
• the level of each one: low, moderate or high;
• a direct comparison showing which side leads, or whether both are high;
• the situations from your answers that pushed each score up.

Reading the two numbers together is what makes the result useful. A high anxiety score with a calm depression score points to tension and worry rather than low mood. The reverse points to exhaustion and lost interest. When both are high, they usually feed each other, and it helps to know which one started first. Our separate depression and anxiety tests go deeper into each side, while this one is built for the overlap.