While not meant to serve as a replacement for a clinical diagnosis of anxiety disorder given by a mental health professional, this quiz was designed with the help of expert psychologists to help you assess your current level of anxiety, as well as changes over time, by returning to this page and repeating the self-assessment.
Please note: This self-assessment is not intended to establish a physician-patient relationship, to replace the services of a trained physician or health care professional, or to otherwise be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. The aim of this quiz is to provide education about the condition. By filling out this self-assessment and clicking “Submit,” you acknowledge that you’ve read and agree with this statement and agree to re-origin’s Terms & Conditions.
For each of the following questions, you will be asked to select one of the following options to indicate the frequency of your symptoms: never, very rarely, rarely, occasionally, frequently, or always. Your unique answers will then be used to calculate your results and determine whether your symptoms are mild, moderate, or severe. Your results will show further unique educational information, and all results are strictly confidential.
Anxiety Disorders vs. Normal Anxiety
Occasional anxiety is a normal part of life. However, if your quiz results reflect persistent, excessive worry that interferes with daily functioning, this may indicate a more chronic stress response pattern.
Rather than focusing on diagnostic labels, this assessment is designed to help you understand whether your nervous system may be stuck in a heightened state of alertness, and whether additional support could be beneficial.
What Are The Common Symptoms of Anxiety?
If you selected responses indicating frequent restlessness, excessive worry, physical tension, or sleep disturbance, these may suggest that anxiety is impacting both your mental and physical well-being.
How is Anxiety Measured?
Your quiz score provides a general indication of symptom severity (mild, moderate, or severe). While screening tools can offer helpful insight, only a qualified healthcare professional can provide a formal diagnosis.
Regardless of the number of measurement instruments, the first resource you should use is your health care physician or mental health professional. If you suspect you are suffering from anxiety or an anxiety disorder, speak to your doctor. Your health care provider will perform a physical exam, inquire about your symptoms, and may order labwork with other tests to discover any underlying conditions that may be responsible for symptoms.
Benefits of Treating Anxiety
Bizarrely enough, the right amount of anxiety is actually beneficial. Anxiety is rooted in the body’s natural stress response. When functioning properly, it protects us. However, when this response becomes overactive, it can begin reacting to non-threatening situations. The limbic system is the area of the brain in charge of behavioral and emotional reactions, specifically when it comes to behaviors required for survival. For example, if you were face to face with a cougar, your limbic system would start to prepare your body to run away: you would feel your heart rate increase, your muscles tense, and your adrenaline pumping.
Anxiety’s sole purpose is to protect us from danger by allowing us to react quickly to emergencies. The issue becomes when our limbic system does too good a job; some of what our brain begins to perceive as dangerous is harmless to ourselves, such as public speaking, finishing up a report, or missing a few hours of sleep.
Scientific benefits of normal anxiety levels include:
- Focusing your attention on important issues and situations
- Provides the energy required to take action during stressful situations
- Increases one’s resilience to life’s unpredictability
Health Risks Related to Anxiety
While normal levels of anxiety can provide benefits, elevated feelings of anxiety or anxiety disorders pose several serious health risks.
Cardiovascular Risks
If left unaddressed, chronic anxiety may affect both mental and physical health over time. Identifying elevated anxiety levels early can help you take proactive steps toward regulation and recovery.
Effects on The Immune System
Anxiety triggers an individual’s flight-or-fight response, which causes the release of neurochemicals (epinephrine) and hormones (adrenaline) into the body.
As a short-term event, these chemicals and hormones increase one’s breathing rate and pulse, meaning the brain is supplied with more oxygen in preparation for fight or flight. However, the continued feeling of anxiety prevents your body from returning to its normal level of functioning, thus compromising your immune system in the long term.
How to Manage Anxiety
Depending on your results, helpful next steps may include stress-reduction practices, lifestyle adjustments, therapeutic support, or nervous system regulation techniques.
Overcoming Anxiety With Neuroplasticity “Brain Retraining”
If your results suggest moderate to severe anxiety, re-origin’s neuroplasticity-based program is designed to help calm the overactive stress response and support long-term nervous system regulation.
At re-origin, we guide individuals in how to use the perspective of the “curious observer” by separating oneself from anxious thoughts and feelings and then learning to view them as nothing more than a temporary brain loop. By conditioning this new behavior and experience with a series of science-based brain retraining techniques, its members at the re-origin program and community have been able to experience dramatic and permanent shifts in how they feel, function, and present in daily life.
What is a good way to get rid of anxiety?
If your anxiety feels persistent or overwhelming, targeted brain retraining may help shift your system out of chronic fight-or-flight mode and restore a sense of safety and balance.
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