Anxiety self-check
The GAD-7 is a seven-question screening questionnaire that doctors widely use to check for anxiety.
This is a screening tool, not a diagnosis. Only a health professional can diagnose depression or anxiety. Your answers stay on this device: they aren't saved, sent, or added to the page address, and they disappear when you leave the page.
If you're thinking about hurting yourself, don't wait to finish: call or text 988, or call 911 if you are in immediate danger.
Over the last 2 weeks, how often have you been bothered by the following problems?
A printout or saved PDF is a copy someone else could find.
What to do next
A self-check is a starting point, not a diagnosis. Whatever your score, if something doesn't feel right, it's worth talking to a doctor, nurse, or counselor.
- Finding mental health care: what to do after a self-check: where to start, and the kinds of help available.
- Questions to ask your doctor, to bring to an appointment.
Guides that may help
- If you're pregnant or have recently had a baby: Postpartum anxiety, intrusive thoughts, and perinatal OCD
- If you're in the years leading up to menopause: Perimenopause and mental health
- If your symptoms seem to follow your menstrual cycle: PMDD: when it's more than PMS
Free, confidential support
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
Call or text 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org. Free and confidential. ASL via videophone.11
Call or text 988SAMHSA's National Helpline
Call 1-800-662-HELP (4357) or text your 5-digit ZIP code to 435748. Free and confidential. English and Spanish by phone; text is English only. TTY: 1-800-487-4889.30
Call 1-800-662-4357Crisis Text Line
Text HOME to 741741 or chat at connect.crisistextline.org. Free and confidential, with trained volunteer crisis counselors. En español: text HOLA to 741741.31
Chat onlineAbout this questionnaire
Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7).46,44 The GAD-7's developers recommend a score of 10 or more as the point for further evaluation.
Developed by Drs. Robert L. Spitzer, Janet B.W. Williams, Kurt Kroenke and colleagues, with an educational grant from Pfizer Inc. No permission required to reproduce, translate, display or distribute.