A three-minute assessment built on the clinically validated GAD-7, plus the questions your doctor would ask next. Get your Anxiety Profile and the specific kind of help most likely to work for you — therapy, medication, or self-directed tools.
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Seven clinical questions plus four more to match you to what actually fits your presentation. Free, private, and matched to fit — not to payout.
The seven validated GAD-7 questions your primary-care provider would use, plus four short questions about how anxiety shows up for you.
A four-letter code that names your specific pattern — anticipatory or reactive, body or mind, avoider or engager — plus your severity band on the GAD-7 scale.
The specific kind of help most likely to work for your profile — therapy, medication, self-help, or in-person — routed by fit, not by what pays us most.
Early testers of the assessment — quoted with permission, identified by first name and rough profile.
"Every anxiety quiz I've taken just told me to sign up for BetterHelp. This one told me to talk to my primary-care doctor about medication first, and it was right."
"I liked that it said 'you don't actually need therapy right now, here's an app and here's when to escalate.' Nobody says that. It felt honest."
"The profile code got me. I sent it to my sister who has the same one. It gave us something concrete to actually talk about."
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Content sourced to primary literature (DSM-5-TR, NIMH, APA, peer-reviewed studies) with public editorial standards.
Pick the description that matches best. Every path leads to the same assessment — the entry point just changes the frame.
Racing thoughts you can't turn off. Worry that jumps from one thing to the next. The mental treadmill.
Start with this →Sudden waves of physical fear — pounding heart, tight chest, feeling like you're going to lose control.
Start with this →Dread before meetings, parties, dates. Replaying conversations after. Feeling watched and judged.
Start with this →Chest tightness, dizziness, brain fog, insomnia, gut issues. Doctors say you're "fine" and yet.
Start with this →Every symptom is catastrophic in your head. You Google. You go to the ER. Nothing settles it for long.
Start with this →Pregnancy, a breakup, a new job, a loss, a health scare. The anxiety started (or spiked) with a real event.
Start with this →Every guide is dated, sourced to primary literature, and editorially maintained.
Physical, mental, and behavioral — including the ones people don't talk about (chest pain, brain fog, gut issues). What's anxiety, and what's something else.
Read the guide →Why they feel life-threatening, why they end within ten minutes, and the two techniques with the strongest evidence for shortening one that's already started.
Read the guide →Ranked by evidence — what actually works, and what sounds like it should but doesn't. Including the tier-4 "sounds good, weak evidence" list nobody else publishes.
Read the guide →How BetterHelp, Talkspace, Grow, Alma, and Brightside actually compare — on price, insurance, wait time, and therapist quality. Including who each is wrong for.
Read the guide →Some anxiety is universal. Some is specific to what's happening in your life right now — hormones, transitions, specific triggers. These guides cover the situation-specific patterns.
Racing 3am thoughts, intrusive imagery, hypervigilance. What\'s happening biologically and what actually helps in the first year.
Read the guide →Where normal worry ends and clinically-significant anxiety begins. What\'s safe to treat during pregnancy, and how.
Read the guide →The hormonal driver that\'s often missed. New-onset anxiety in your 40s-50s, and the HRT-and-therapy conversation to have.
Read the guide →The specific pattern formerly called "hypochondria." Why symptom-Googling makes it worse, and the CBT approach that reliably helps.
Read the guide →Usually not really about the plane. What\'s underneath it, what stops one in-flight, and the exposure programs that eliminate it.
Read the guide →Sunday scaries. Meeting dread. Slack-check compulsion. What\'s driving the modern spike, and what actually helps.
Read the guide →Yes. The assessment, the Anxiety Profile, and the matched recommendations are free and require no signup. We currently have no affiliate relationships with the services we link to. When that changes, we'll disclose exactly what each partner pays us page-by-page.
No. The GAD-7 is a screening tool, not a diagnostic one. It's the same seven-question instrument your doctor might use to start a conversation — but a real diagnosis requires a licensed clinician. Every result page says so clearly.
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