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Depression Scale
DEPRESSION SELF-ASSESSMENT

For each item, please circle the number to the left of the statement which most reflects how you have felt in the past week.

Circle more than one statement for each item if more than one seems to apply equally well.

1. 0 I do not feel sad.
  1 I feel sad.
  2 I am sad all the time and can’t snap out of it.
  3 I am so sad or unhappy that I can’t stand it.
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2. 0 I am not particularly discouraged about the future.
  1 I feel discouraged about the future.
  2 I feel I have nothing to look forward to.
 

3 I feel that the future is hopeless and that things cannot be improved.

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3.

0 I do not feel like a failure.

  1 I feel I have failed more than the average person.
  2 As I look back on my life, all I can see is a lot of failures.
  3 I feel I am a complete failure as a person.
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4. 0 I get as much satisfaction out of things as I used to.
  1 I don’t enjoy things the way I used to.
  2 I don’t get real satisfaction out of anything anymore.
  3 I am dissatisfied or bored with everything.
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5. 0 I don’t feel particularly guilty.
  1 I feel guilty a good part of the time.
  2 I feel quite guilty most of the time.
  3 I feel guilty all of the time.
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6. 0 I don’t feel disappointed in myself.
  1 I am disappointed in myself.
  2 I am disgusted with myself.
  3 I hate myself.
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7. 0 I don’t have any thoughts of killing myself.
  1 I have thoughts of killing myself, but I would not do it.
  2 I would like to kill myself.
  3 I would kill myself if I had the chance.
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8. 0 I have not lost interest in other people.
  1 I am less interested in other people than I used to be.
  2 I have lost most of my interest in other people.
  3 I have lost all my interest in other people.
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9. 0 I make decisions about as well as I ever could.
  1 I put off making decisions more than I used to.
  2 I have greater difficulty making decisions than before.
  3 I can’t make decisions at all anymore.
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10. 0 I don’t feel I look any worse than I used to.
  1 I am worried that I am looking old or unattractive.
 

2 I feel there are permanent changes in my appearance that make me look unattractive.

  3 I believe that I look ugly.
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11. 0 I can work about as well as before.
  1 It takes an extra effort to get started doing something.
  2 I have to push myself very hard to do anything.
  3 I can’t do any work at all.
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12. 0 I don’t get tired more than usual.
  1 I get tired more easily than I used to.
  2 I get tired from doing almost anything.
  3 I am too tired to do anything.
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13. 0 My appetite is no worse than usual.
  1 My appetite is not as good as it used to be.
  2 My appetite is much worse now.
  3 I have no appetite at all anymore.
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Scores range from 0 to 39 with higher scores reflecting greater severity of depression