Check Your Mental Health Symptoms — Scientifically

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, like you were driven by a motor?

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 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 have noticed, or the opposite

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

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. Unwanted, intrusive thoughts about harm, violence, or bad things happening

2. Thoughts that you might hurt someone or lose control

3. Difficulty discarding or throwing things away (hoarding)

4. Excessive concern with cleanliness, contamination, or germs

5. Repetitive behaviors like checking, cleaning, counting, or arranging

6. Need for things to be "just right" or perfectly ordered

1. Periods of extremely elevated, expansive, or irritable mood lasting days or weeks

2. Decreased need for sleep during high-energy periods

3. Racing thoughts, flight of ideas, or rapid speech

4. Excessive involvement in risky activities or poor judgment

5. Depressive episodes alternating with elevated mood periods

6. Family history of bipolar disorder

1. Difficulty falling asleep (taking more than 30 minutes)

2. Frequent nighttime awakenings or inability to stay asleep

3. Waking up too early in the morning and unable to return to sleep

4. Excessive daytime sleepiness or fatigue

5. Loud snoring or pauses in breathing during sleep (if reported by others)

6. Irregular sleep schedule or insomnia despite spending enough time in bed

1. Loss of control over substance or behavior use

2. Continued use despite negative consequences

3. Strong cravings or urges to use

4. Withdrawal symptoms when not using (irritability, anxiety, etc.)

5. Tolerance development (needing more to feel the same effect)

6. Impact on work, relationships, or health

1. Decreased sexual desire or interest

2. Difficulty achieving or maintaining erection

3. Premature ejaculation or delayed ejaculation

4. Difficulty with arousal or orgasm

5. Performance anxiety during sexual activity

6. Relationship intimacy or communication problems