Online Depression Tests

In the fields of psychology and psychiatry, the terms depression or depressed means sadness and other related emotions and behaviors. It can be thought of as either a disease or a syndrome. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) states that a depressed mood is often reported as feeling depressed, sad, helpless, and hopeless. In traditional colloquy, "depressed" is often synonymous with "sad," but both clinical and non-clinical depression can also refer to a conglomeration of more than one feeling.

Such a mixture can include anger, fear, anxiety, despair, guilt, apathy, perceived helplessness, loss of interest in pleasure, pain, or grief, in addition to what many people would describe as typical "sadness". Depressives sometimes engage in violence or excessive criticism of others. Many depressed people have obsessions, alcoholism or other addictions. Depression is harmful to the human body and can affect proper functioning of the brain. Extended depression can lead to suicidal tendencies.

A Depression Test is no substitute for a Professional Health Care diagnosis. If we suspect we are depressed we can contact our Health Care Professional immediately.

Goldberg Depression Inventory: an online depression test of 18 questions, by psychiatrist Ivan K. Goldberg that provides immediate feedback with a scale of our level of depression. It can be used weekly to track our moods.

The Geriatric Depression Scale: suitable as a screening test for depressive symptoms in the elderly. This one has 15 Y/N questions.

Online Depression Test: an online depression test of 12 questions that asks if we have been feeling during the past few days.

A Test for Depression: this online depression test is adapted from the one used for the National Depression Day Screening and contains 23 Questions. Results fall into one of 4 groups ranging from within normal range to presence of severe depression.

The Depression Test: an online test to determine our level of depression. There are 23 questions and choose which of 4 statements most closely matches how we feel.

Clinical Depression Screening Test: check list to help we determine if we or someone we know is suffering from clinical depression.

Online Depression Screening Test: New York University Department of Psychiatry 10 question screening test for depressive symptoms. Refers to how we have been feeling for past 2 weeks. This is designed to give a preliminary idea about the presence of mild to moderate depressive symptoms that indicate the need for an evaluation by a psychiatrist.

Depression Assessment: depression assessment based on the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale which was developed in the 1970's to detect major or clinical depression. I t has 20 questions and our responses are collected as anonymous, aggregated information and can be used for research purposes.

Depression Screening Tool: the HANDS Screening Tool is copyrighted by National Mental Illness Screening Project and President and Fellow of Harvard College and is intended solely for the purpose of identifying the symptoms of depressive disorders. There are 10 questions covering feelings over the past 2 weeks.

These depression tests as they seem to be amongst the better ones. However, remember that these are rough guides. By completing the Learning Path, we will be much better placed to test our self about whether we are depressed, and more importantly, know what to do about it.

• Emma Bullock
• 13/04/2009, 10:59 AM
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