Depression, Anxiety and Stress Self-Assessment
Focuses on experiences related to depression, anxiety, and stress, helping you reflect on how you’ve been feeling over the past week.
What this assessment explores
Sometimes it's hard to tell what you're actually experiencing – whether what you're feeling is depression, anxiety, stress, or some combination of all three. This assessment helps you get a clearer picture of your psychological wellbeing right now, across three distinct but related dimensions. It's built on the DASS-21, one of the most widely used psychological distress measures in the world.
See the original scaleWhat you can expect
There are 21 questions, and they'll ask you to reflect on how you've been feeling over the past week. Seven questions cover each of the three areas.
The questions touch on things like:
- Depression – feelings of hopelessness, low motivation, loss of interest, or a sense that life feels flat
- Anxiety – physical tension, nervousness, and a sense of dread or panic
- Stress – feeling wound up, easily irritated, or unable to come down from a state of tension
Your responses give you a clearer picture of where your distress is sitting – and how each dimension is showing up relative to what's typical.
Why this is free and private
Insightable Mind is built by clinical and research psychologists to help people better understand themselves, while contributing to meaningful psychological research. These assessments are offered free as part of that work. Your responses are private – when data is used for research, it's fully anonymised and combined with others to help improve the assessments and answer important questions about human psychology.
Top tips
Our best advice to help you get the most out of your self-assessment:
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