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Understand what you're feeling.

These are the same validated screening tools used in clinical practice — not a diagnosis, just a starting point. Nothing you enter is stored, saved, or sent anywhere; your answers stay on this device and disappear when you leave the page.

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Depression

PHQ-9

A 9-question screening for symptoms of depression over the past two weeks.

~2 minutes · 9 questions
Anxiety

GAD-7

A 7-question screening for symptoms of generalized anxiety over the past two weeks.

~2 minutes · 7 questions
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Depression Screening

PHQ-9

Over the last 2 weeks, how often have you been bothered by any of the following problems?

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 or watching television
8. Moving or speaking so slowly that others could have noticed — or the opposite, being so fidgety or restless that you've been moving around a lot more than usual
9. Thoughts that you would be better off dead, or of hurting yourself in some way

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Anxiety Screening

GAD-7

Over the last 2 weeks, how often have you been bothered by any of the following problems?

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's hard to sit still
6. Becoming easily annoyed or irritable
7. Feeling afraid as if something awful might happen

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These screenings are educational tools, not a diagnosis. They're the same instruments used in clinical practice (PHQ-9 and GAD-7), but only a full evaluation with a licensed clinician can determine what's actually going on and what treatment, if any, makes sense.