Free Depression Test - 21 Questions

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Use this brief 21-question online automated quiz to help you determine if you may need to see a mental health professional for diagnosis and treatment of depression, or for tracking your depression and mood on a regular basis.

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Instructions: You can use it on a weekly basis to track your moods. It also might be used to show your doctor how your symptoms have changed from one visit to the next. This scale is not designed to make a diagnosis of depression or take the place of a professional diagnosis.
Answer each of the 21 items below about how you have felt and behaved during the past week. Be honest for the most accurate result.

1. Select one from below options

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 and unhappy that I can't stand it

2. Select one from below options

I am not particularly discouraged about the future

I feel discouraged about the future

I feel I have nothing to look forward to

I feel the future is hopeless and that things cannot improve

3. Select one from below options

I do not feel like a failure

I feel I have failed more 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. Select one from below options

I get as much satisfaction out of things as I used to

I don't enjoy things the way I used to

I don't get real satisfaction out of anything anymore

I am dissatisfied or bored with everything

5. Select one from below options

I don't feel particularly guilty

I feel guilty a good part of the time

I feel quite guilty most of the time

I feel guilty all of the time

6. Select one from below options

I don't feel I am being punished

I feel I may be punished

I expect to be punished

I feel I am being punished

7. Select one from below options

I don't feel disappointed in myself

I am disappointed in myself

I am disgusted with myself

I hate myself

8. Select one from below options

I don't feel I am any worse than anybody else

I am critical of myself for my weaknesses or mistakes

I blame myself all the time for my faults

I blame myself for everything bad that happens

9. Select one from below options

I don't 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. Select one from below options

I don't cry any more than usual

I cry more now than I used to

I cry all the time now

I used to be able to cry, but now I can't cry even though I want to

11. Select one from below options

I am no more irritated by things than I ever was

I am slightly more irritated now than usual

I am quite annoyed or irritated a good deal of the time

I feel irritated all the time

12. Select one from below options

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. Select one from below options

I make decisions about as well as I ever could

I put off making decisions more than I used to

I have greater difficulty in making decisions more than I used to

I can't make decisions at all anymore

14. Select one from below options

I don't feel that I look any worse than I used to

I am worried that I am looking old or unattractive

I feel there are permanent changes in my appearance that make me look unattractive

I believe that I look ugly

15. Select one from below options

I can work about 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 can't do any work at all

16. Select one from below options

I can sleep as well as usual

I don't sleep as well as 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 I used to and cannot get back to sleep

17. Select one from below options

I don't get more tired than usual

I get tired more easily than I used to

I get tired from doing almost anything

I am too tired to do anything

18. Select one from below options

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 anymore

19. Select one from below options

I haven't lost much weight, if any, lately

I have lost more than two kilograms

I have lost more than four kilograms

I have lost more than seven kilograms

20. Select one from below options

I am no more worried about my health than usual

I am worried about physical problems like aches, pains, upset stomach, or constipation

I am very worried about physical problems and it's hard to think of much else

I am so worried about my physical problems that I cannot think of anything else

21. Select one from below options

I have not noticed any recent change in my interest in sex

I am less interested in sex than I used to be

I have almost no interest in sex

I have lost interest in sex completely

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