Mind health

Anxiety self-check

Seven short questions about the last two weeks. It takes about two minutes. Your answers stay on your device and are never saved or sent.

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

  1. 1Feeling nervous, anxious, or on edge
  2. 2Not being able to stop or control worrying
  3. 3Worrying too much about different things
  4. 4Trouble relaxing
  5. 5Being so restless that it is hard to sit still
  6. 6Becoming easily annoyed or irritable
  7. 7Feeling afraid, as if something awful might happen

About this questionnaire

This self-check uses the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7), developed by Drs Robert L. Spitzer, Kurt Kroenke, Janet B.W. Williams, Bernd Löwe and colleagues, with an educational grant from Pfizer Inc. Free to use. Spitzer RL et al. Arch Intern Med. 2006;166:1092–1097.

Health professionals: the clinical version, with scoring bands and references, is in the Resident’s Toolkit.

Written and reviewed by Dr. Utkarsh Gaur, psychiatry resident. Last reviewed 18 October 2026. This page is for information and does not replace advice from a doctor who knows you.