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Self assessment tools

The self assessment tools below can help if you are unsure whether you should seek support to talk to someone. Tool 1 looks at the common symptoms that are associated with low mood. Tool 2 looks at the common symptoms that are associated with anxiety.
You will get a different score for each tool but need complete them both.

These tools do not provide a clinical diagnosis but can help understand your symptoms and if you would benefit from support from psychological services.

They are anonymous and no personal data is saved.

Self assessment tool 1

Over the last 2 weeks, how often have you been bothered by the following problems?	Several days	More than half the days	Nearly every day
1. Little interest or pleasure in doing things	1	2	3
2. Feeling down, depressed, or hopeless	1	2	3
3. Trouble falling or staying asleep, or sleeping too much	1	2	3
4. Feeling tired of having little energy	1	2	3
5. Poor appetite or overeating	1	2	3
6. Feeling bad about yourself - or that you are a failure or have let yourself or family down	1	2	3
7. Trouble concentrating on things, such as reading the newspaper or watching television	1	2	3
8. Moving or speaking so slowly that other people could have noticed? Or the opposite - being so fidgety or restless that you have been moving around a lot more than usual	1	2	3
9. Thoughts that you would be better off dead or of hurting yourself in some way	1	2	3

Self assessment tool 2

Over the last 2 weeks, how often have you been bothered by the following problems?	Several days	More than half the days	Nearly every day
1. Feeling nervous, anxious or on edge	1	2	3
2. Not being able to stop or control worrying	1	2	3
3. Worrying too much about different things	1	2	3
4. Trouble relaxing	1	2	3
5. Being so restless that it is hard to sit still	1	2	3
6. Becoming easily annoyed or irritable	1	2	3
7. Felling afraid as if something awful might happen	1	2	3