Worry, tension, and avoidance over the last two weeks. A map of anxious patterns, not a diagnosis.
About this test
The GAD-7 (Spitzer, Kroenke, Williams, and Löwe) covers nervousness, uncontrollable worry, worry on several topics, trouble relaxing, restlessness, irritability, and a sense that something awful may happen. Barlow's work and Borkovec's worry research add the picture of anxiety as a future-oriented alarm that narrows life through avoidance and reassurance. These items use those domains in original wording. A high score means the alarm has been busy. It does not diagnose an anxiety disorder.
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What this test asks
Over the last two weeks I have felt keyed up or nervous, as if my body were braced for something.
Once a worry starts, I have trouble setting it down or steering it.
I have been worrying about several different parts of life, not one problem with a clear next step.
Relaxing on purpose has been difficult. The off-switch does not catch.
I have been so restless that sitting through an ordinary task was hard.
I have been more easily annoyed or irritable than my usual self.
I have felt afraid, as if something awful might happen and I cannot name it precisely.
My muscles have stayed tight, jaw, shoulders, or stomach, even when I am sitting still.
I have avoided a situation mainly because of what I feared I would feel there.
I can set a worry down and return to the task in front of me.
I have asked for reassurance over and over so the alarm will drop, and it only drops briefly.
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