Beck’s Depression Inventory

The Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) (Beck et al., 1996) is one of the most widely used screening tools for depressive disorders and is also used to measure the severity of depression. It was created by Aaron T. Beck, is a 21-question multiple-choice self-report inventory, one of the most widely used psychometric tests for measuring the severity of depression.

Share Beck’s Depression Inventory with your friends

[ss_social_share align="right" shape="slanted" size="small" labels="label" spacing="1" hide_on_mobile="0" total="0" all_networks="1"]

I do not feel sad

I feel sad

I am sad all the time and I can't snap out of it

I am so sad and unhappy that I can't stand it

I am not particularly discouraged about the future

I feel discouraged about the future

I feel I have nothing to look forward to

I feel the future is hopeless and that things cannot improve

I do not feel like a failure

I feel I have failed more than the average person

As I look back on my life, all I can see is a lot of failures

I feel I am a complete failure as a person

I get as much satisfaction out of things as I used to

I don't enjoy things the way I used to

I don't get real satisfaction out of anything anymore

I am dissatisfied or bored with everything

I don't feel particularly guilty

I feel guilty a good part of the time

I feel quite guilty most of the time

I feel guilty all of the time

I don't feel I am being punished

I feel I may be punished

I expect to be punished

I feel I am being punished

I don't feel disappointed in myself

I am disappointed in myself

I am disgusted with myself

I hate myself

I don't feel I am any worse than anybody else

I am critical of myself for my weaknesses or mistakes

I blame myself all the time for my faults

I blame myself for everything bad that happens

I don't have any thoughts of killing myself

I have thoughts of killing myself, but I would not carry them out

I would like to kill myself

I would kill myself if I had the chance

I don't cry any more than usual

I cry more now than I used to

I cry all the time now

I used to be able to cry, but now I can't cry even though I want to

I am no more irritated by things than I ever was

I am slightly more irritated now than usual

I am quite annoyed or irritated a good deal of the time

I feel irritated all the time

I have not lost interest in other people

I am less interested in other people than I used to be

I have lost most of my interest in other people

I have lost all of my interest in other people

I make decisions about as well as I ever could

I put off making decisions more than I used to

I have greater difficulty in making decisions more than I used to

I can't make decisions at all anymore

I don't feel that I look any worse than I used to

I am worried that I am looking old or unattractive

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

I believe that I look ugly

I can work about as well as before

It takes an extra effort to get started at doing something

I have to push myself very hard to do anything

I can't do any work at all

I can sleep as well as usual

I don't sleep as well as I used to

I wake up 1-2 hours earlier than usual and find it hard to get back to sleep

I wake up several hours earlier than I used to and cannot get back to sleep

I don't get more tired than usual

I get tired more easily than I used to

I get tired from doing almost anything

I am too tired to do anything

My appetite is no worse than usual

My appetite is not as good as it used to be

My appetite is much worse now

I have no appetite at all anymore

I haven't lost much weight, if any, lately

I have lost more than five pounds

I have lost more than ten pounds

I have lost more than fifteen pounds

I am no more worried about my health than usual

I am worried about physical problems like aches, pains, upset stomach, or constipation

I am very worried about physical problems and it's hard to think of much else

I am so worried about my physical problems that I cannot think of anything else

I have not noticed any recent change in my interest in sex

I am less interested in sex than I used to be

I have almost no interest in sex

I have lost interest in sex completely

Cookie	Duration	Description
cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement	1 year	Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to record the user consent for the cookies in the "Advertisement" category .
cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics	11 months	This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional	11 months	The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary	11 months	This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-others	11 months	This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance	11 months	This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance".
CookieLawInfoConsent	1 year	Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie.
viewed_cookie_policy	11 months	The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data.

Cookie	Duration	Description
__utma	2 years	This cookie is set by Google Analytics and is used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the JavaScript library executes and there are no existing __utma cookies. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
__utmb	30 minutes	Google Analytics sets this cookie, to determine new sessions/visits. __utmb cookie is created when the JavaScript library executes and there are no existing __utma cookies. It is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
__utmc	session	The cookie is set by Google Analytics and is deleted when the user closes the browser. It is used to enable interoperability with urchin.js, which is an older version of Google Analytics and is used in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine new sessions/visits.
__utmt	10 minutes	Google Analytics sets this cookie to inhibit request rate.
__utmz	6 months	Google Analytics sets this cookie to store the traffic source or campaign by which the visitor reached the site.

Cookie	Duration	Description
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	5 months 27 days	A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface.
YSC	session	YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages.
yt-remote-connected-devices	never	YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video.
yt-remote-device-id	never	YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video.

policies

network

contact

contact

network

policies

Get the Healsens app