Self-Assessment Tools

1. Little interest or pleasure in doing things

2. Feeling down, depressed, or hopeless

3. Trouble falling or staying asleep, or sleeping too much

4. Feeling tired or having little energy

5. Poor appetite or overeating

6. Feeling bad about yourself, or that you are a failure, or have let yourself or your family down

7. Trouble concentrating on things, such as reading the newspaper or watching television

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

9. Thoughts that you would be better off dead, or of hurting yourself in some way

1. Feeling nervous, anxious, or on edge

2. Not being able to stop or control worrying

3. Worrying too much about different things

4. Trouble relaxing

5. Being so restless that it is hard to sit still

6. Becoming easily annoyed or irritable

7. Feeling afraid, as if something awful might happen

1. How often do you have trouble wrapping up the final details of a project, once the challenging parts have been done?

2. How often do you have difficulty getting things in order when you have to do a task that requires organization?

3. How often do you have problems remembering appointments or obligations?

4. When you have a task that requires a lot of thought, how often do you avoid or delay getting started?

5. How often do you fidget or squirm with your hands or feet when you have to sit down for a long time?

6. How often do you feel overly active and compelled to do things, as if you were driven by a motor?

1. Nervous?

2. Hopeless?

3. Restless or fidgety?

4. So depressed that nothing could cheer you up?

5. That everything was an effort?

6. Worthless?

1. How often do you have a drink containing alcohol?

2. How many standard drinks on a typical drinking day?

3. How often do you have 6 or more drinks on one occasion?

4. How often could you not stop drinking once you had started?

5. How often did drinking prevent you from doing what was normally expected of you?

6. How often did you need a morning drink to get yourself going after a heavy drinking session?

7. How often did you have a feeling of guilt or remorse after drinking?

8. How often could you not remember what happened the night before because of your drinking?

9. Have you or someone else been injured because of your drinking?

10. Has a relative, friend, or doctor been concerned about your drinking or suggested you cut down?

1. Had nightmares about the event or thought about the event when you did not want to?

2. Tried hard not to think about the event or went out of your way to avoid situations that reminded you of the event?

3. Been constantly on guard, watchful, or easily startled?

4. Felt numb or detached from people, activities, or your surroundings?

5. Felt guilty or unable to stop blaming yourself or others for the event or any problems the event may have caused?

1. You felt so good or hyper that other people thought you were not your normal self, or so hyper that you got into trouble?

2. You were so irritable that you shouted at people or started fights or arguments?

3. You felt much more self-confident than usual?

4. You got much less sleep than usual and found you didn't really miss it?

5. You were much more talkative or spoke much faster than usual?

6. Thoughts raced through your head and you couldn't slow your mind down?

7. You were so easily distracted by things around you that you had trouble concentrating?

8. You had much more energy than usual?

9. You were much more active or did many more things than usual?

10. You were much more social or outgoing than usual (e.g., telephoning friends in the middle of the night)?

11. You were much more interested in sex than usual?

12. You did things that were unusual for you or that other people might have thought were excessive, foolish, or risky?

13. Spending money got you or your family into trouble?

14. If you checked YES to more than one of the above, have several of these ever happened during the same period of time?

15. How much of a problem did any of these cause you?

1. I have been able to laugh and see the funny side of things

2. I have looked forward with enjoyment to things

3. I have blamed myself unnecessarily when things went wrong

4. I have been anxious or worried for no good reason

5. I have felt scared or panicky for no very good reason

6. Things have been getting on top of me

7. I have been so unhappy that I have had difficulty sleeping

8. I have felt sad or miserable

9. I have been so unhappy that I have been crying

10. The thought of harming myself has occurred to me