Your Results — Anxiety Test:

Mild Anxiety

Take Another Mental Health Test

To save your results, create an account. With an MHA Screening account, you can track your symptoms and scores over time. All your results remain completely confidential! You can also save articles and other resources to revisit later.

Register or log in to save results

About your score

Each of your answers has a score of 0-3. Click ‘Your Answers’ above to see your score for each question. Adding these up provides your Total Score.

Not at all = 0; Several days = 1; More than half the days = 2; Nearly every day = 3

Interpreting your Total Score

  • 0-4: minimal anxiety
  • 5-9: mild anxiety
  • 10-14: moderate anxiety
  • 15-21: severe anxiety

To monitor your anxiety severity over time:

Option 1: Create an MHA Screening account to save your results and track changes over time.

Option 2: Track your scores manually:

  1. Print or email your initial results. This is your baseline.
  2. Continue to screen at regular intervals (for example, every 2 weeks).
  3. Note any changes in your Total Score (above).
  4. Print or email results and bring them to someone who is helping you in your recovery.

Source

Primary Care Evaluation of Mental Disorders Patient Health Questionnaire (PRIME-MD-PHQ). The PHQ, including the GAD-7, was developed by Drs. Robert L. Spitzer, Janet B.W. Williams, Kurt Kroenke, and colleagues. For research information, contact Dr. Spitzer at [email protected]. PRIME-MD® is a trademark of Pfizer Inc. Copyright© 1999 Pfizer Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission.

Your Answers

1. Feeling nervous, anxious, or on edge
Several days (1)
2. Not being able to stop or control worrying
Several days (1)
3. Worrying too much about different things
More than half the days (2)
4. Trouble relaxing
Several days (1)
5. Being so restless that it is hard to sit still
Several days (1)
6. Becoming easily annoyed or irritable
Several days (1)
7. Feeling afraid, as if something awful might happen
Several days (1)

Your results indicate that you may be experiencing some signs of mild anxiety.

These results are not meant to be a diagnosis. You can meet with a doctor or therapist to get a diagnosis and/or access therapy or medications. Sharing these results with someone you trust can be a great place to start.

Next Steps

  1. Getting Unstuck: Practice Changing Thoughts
  2. Overcoming Negative Thoughts
  3. How quickly do anxiety meds work?
  4. Addiction: What’s keeping me stuck?

Ready to take a step towards recovery?

Text to someone who’s been on that journey. Peer support specialists are here to listen non-judgmentally and confidentially. You are not alone.

Our line is FREE (for United States residents) and operates from 10am to 11pm Eastern Time (7am to 8pm Pacific), Monday through Friday (excluding holidays). To try it, text “hello” to 678-264-6978.

For more information, click here.

Join a research study on technology, mental health, and self-injury for $25.00

You are invited to participate in a Northwestern-sponsored online research project focused on adolescents (14-17) who engage in nonsuicidal self-injury with the chance to earn up to $25.00. If you are interested, please click this link to learn more about the study and answer questions to see if you are eligible.

More Info & Resources for Anxiety

  1. Dealing With Tough Situations
  2. Dealing with Tough Situations
  3. ADAA Online Peer-to-Peer Anxiety and Depression Support Group
  4. How can I help a loved one with anxiety?
  5. Are there types of anxiety?
  6. I feel anxious about COVID-19
  7. I feel like I can’t breathe!
  8. How common is anxiety?
  9. Benzodiazepines
  10. Dealing with Change
  11. Dealing with the Worst-Case Scenario
  12. I don’t want to live, but I don’t want to die.
  13. I can’t get out of bed
  14. I can’t stop snapping at people!
  15. Feeling lonely in a crowd
  16. How can I be ok when the world is terrible?
  17. I can’t stop thinking about bad things that could happen
  18. I don’t feel like I belong anywhere
  19. I can’t sit still!
  20. I can’t get over things that happened in the past
  21. More articles about Anxiety
This test was taken on March 3, 2021, 1:27 am EST. To view this result on the web, visit:
https://screening.mhanational.org/screening-results/?sid=9a84a9d2-f2c2-4aa0-9298-90f15df63092

Learn more about Anxiety at https://screening.mhanational.org/anxiety/