Beck Depression Inventory Test - the question form

Questions: 21 · 10 minutes
1. How have you been feeling this week and today?
I do not feel sad.
I feel sad.
I am sad all the time and I can't snap out of it.
I am so sad or unhappy that I can't stand it.
2. How would you rate your satisfaction with life over the past week, including today?
I am not worried about my future.
I feel uncertain about the future.
I feel that I have nothing to look forward to.
My future seems hopeless, and things cannot improve.
3. How have you been feeling about failure over the past week, including today?
I do not feel like a failure.
I feel I have had more failures than the average person.
As I look back on my life, all I can see is a lot of failures.
I feel I am a complete failure as a person.
4. How satisfied with life have you felt this week, including today?
I get as much satisfaction from life as before.
I do not get as much satisfaction from life as I used to.
I no longer get satisfaction from anything.
I am completely dissatisfied with life, and everything is tiresome.
5. Over the past week, including today, how guilty have you felt?
I do not feel particularly guilty.
I feel guilty a good part of the time.
I feel guilty most of the time.
I feel guilty all of the time.
6. How would you rate your satisfaction with life over the past week, including today?
I do not feel I am being punished.
I feel I may be punished.
I expect to be punished.
I feel I am being punished.
7. Over the past week, including today, how satisfied have you been with your life?
I am not disappointed in myself.
I am disappointed in myself.
I feel disgusted with myself.
I hate myself.
8. How satisfied with life have you felt this week, including today?
I know that I am no worse than other people.
I criticize myself for my mistakes and weaknesses.
I blame myself all the time for my actions.
I blame myself for everything bad that happens.
9. Thoughts of killing myself
I do not have any thoughts of killing myself.
I have thoughts of killing myself, but I would not carry them out.
I would like to kill myself.
I would kill myself if I had the chance.
10. I have been crying:
No more than usual.
More than I used to.
All the time.
I used to be able to cry, but now I cannot cry even though I want to.
11. How would you rate your satisfaction with life over the past week, including today?
I am no more irritable than usual.
I am more easily irritated than I used to be.
I feel irritated all the time now.
I no longer feel irritated by things that used to irritate me.
12. How interested in other people have you been this week, including today?
I have not lost interest in other people.
I am less interested in other people than I used to be.
I have lost most of my interest in other people.
I have lost all of my interest in other people.
13. How have you been making decisions this week, including today?
I put off making decisions sometimes, as I used to.
I put off making decisions more than I used to.
I find it more difficult to make decisions than I used to.
I can no longer make decisions.
14. How have you been feeling about your appearance this week, including today?
I do not feel that I look any worse than usual.
I am worried that I look old and unattractive.
I know that there have been significant changes in my appearance that make me unattractive.
I know that I look ugly.
15. Over the past week, including today, how would you rate your ability to work?
I can work as well as before.
It takes an extra effort to get started at doing something.
I have to push myself very hard to do anything.
I cannot do any work at all.
16. How have you been sleeping this week, including today?
I sleep as well as I used to.
I sleep worse than I used to.
I wake up 1–2 hours earlier than usual and find it hard to get back to sleep.
I wake up several hours earlier than usual and cannot get back to sleep.
17. How tired or fatigued have you felt this week, including today?
I get tired no more than usual.
I get tired more easily than I used to.
I get tired from almost anything I do.
I am too tired to do anything.
18. Over the past week, including today, how has your appetite been?
My appetite is no worse than usual.
My appetite is not as good as it used to be.
My appetite is much worse now.
I have no appetite at all.
19. How do you rate your satisfaction with life this week and today?
I have not lost weight lately, or the weight loss has been negligible.
I have lost more than 2 kg recently.
I have lost more than 5 kg.
I have lost more than 7 kg.
20. How have you been feeling about satisfaction with life this week, including today?
I am no more concerned about my health than usual.
I am troubled by physical health problems such as pain, stomach upset, constipation, etc.
I am very concerned about my physical condition, and it is hard for me to think about anything else.
I am so concerned about my physical condition that I cannot think about anything else.
21. Over the past week, including today, how would you rate your interest in sex?
I have not noticed any recent change in my interest in sex.
I am less interested in sex than I used to be.
I am much less interested in sex now than I used to be.
I have completely lost interest in sex.