Beck's Depression Inventory (BDI)
(This is the content of Beck Depression Inventory (BDI).)
On the following list you have to select the statement in each group from 1 to 21 which best describes your current condition and tick the square next to the sentence (a-d).
Please read through all the sentences in each group, before you tick one of them.
1.
a) I don't feel down or sad.
b) I feel a little down and sad.
c) I feel very down and sad.
d) I'm so sad and unhappy that I cannot stand it.
2.
a) I'm not particularly pessimistic or disheartened with regard to the future.
b) I feel unsure about the future.
c) I feel that I don't have anything to look forward to.
d) I feel that the future is hopeless and that it cannot be improved.
3.
a) I don't feel that my life has been a failure.
b) I feel that I have made more mistakes than people normally do.
c) When I look back at my life, I don't see anything else but a series of mistakes.
d) As a person I feel like a complete failure.
4.
a) I can feel happy about things in the same way as before.
b) I don't feel quite as happy about things as I used to.
c) I can hardly be happy about anything anymore.
d) Nothing makes me happy anymore.
5.
a) I don't have a particularly bad conscience.
b) I often have a bad conscience.
c) I have a bad conscience almost all the time.
d) I feel like a bad and worthless person all the time.
6.
a) I don't get the feeling that something bad will happen to me.
b) I get the feeling that something bad will happen to me.
c) I feel that I am being punished or that I will be punished.
d) I deserve to be punished.
7.
a) I am not disappointed with myself.
b) I am disappointed with myself.
c) I am not satisfied with myself.
d) I am disgusted with myself.
8.
a) I don't feel that I am a lesser person compared to others.
b) I feel that I am a lesser person compared to others.
c) I blame everything that goes wrong on myself.
d) I feel that I am a bad person.
9.
a) I am not contemplating committing suicide.
b) The thought of suicide has occurred to me occasionally.
c) I often contemplate committing suicide.
d) I would take my own life if I had the chance.
10.
a) I don't cry more than I normally do.
b) I cry more than I normally do.
c) I cry all the time and can't stop.
d) I'm usually able to cry but now I'm not able to at all, even if I wanted to.
11.
a) I don't get irritable more easily than I normally do.
b) I get displeased and irritable more easily than I normally do.
c) I feel irritable all the time.
d) I'm no longer able to become irritable about the things that normally irritate me.
12.
a) I'm not less interested in other people now than previously.
b) I'm less interested in other people now than previously.
c) I have lost most of my interest in other people, and I don't feel anything for them.
d) I have lost all interest in other people, and I don't care about them.
13.
a) It has neither become easier nor more difficult for me to make decisions
b) I try to postpone making decisions.
c) I have difficulties making decisions without help.
d) I can hardly make any kind of decisions anymore.
14.
a) I think that I look the way I normally do.
b) I fear that I look more aged than I normally do.
c) Changes have happened to my appearance so I feel ugly.
d) I look ugly and repulsive.
15.
a) I am able to work just as well as previously.
b) I have to make an effort to get started.
c) I have to make an enormous effort in order to get anything done.
d) I am not able to work at all.
16.
a) I sleep just as well as I normally do.
b) I'm more tired in the mornings than I normally am.
c) I wake up 1-2 hours earlier than I normally do and I find it difficult to fall asleep again.
d) I wake up early every morning and I get less than 5 hours sleep.
17.
a) I don't get more tired that I normally do.
b) I get more tired than I normally do.
a) I get tired from everything I do.
d) I'm too tired to do anything.
18.
a) My appetite is the same as it usually is.
b) My appetite is not as good as it usually is.
c) My appetite is a lot worse than it usually is.
d) I don't have any appetite at all anymore.
19.
a) I don't think that I have lost weight in the last month.
b) I have lost approximately 1 kg in weight in the last month.
c) I have lost approximately 2 kg in weight in the last month.
d) I have lost over 2 kg in weight in the last month.
20.
a) I don't think more about my health than I normally do.
b) I often worry about unpleasant sensations in my body for instance pain constriction in the stomach or constipation.
c) I very often worry about unpleasant sensations in my body.
d) I think about how I feel all the time.
21.
a) I haven't lately felt any chance in my sexual drive.
b) I currently have a decreased sexual drive.
c) I currently have a much decreased sexual drive.
d) I have completely lost my sexual drive.