Recurring worries
Read the complete original topic without answering. This public explanation is the same for every visitor and contains no personal choices, counts or diagnosis.
Six category counts add to four descriptions, with individual choices retained. Unscored stays separate from did not notice. No total, mean, ranking, risk level or clinical inference.
Several concerns within a recent period
- The first four original descriptions ask about several worries drawing your attention, a concern remaining after a practical step, imagining an unfavourable outcome and difficulty moving to something else. If you choose to answer, recall the past four weeks. This is an editorial window for a private recollection, rather than a diagnostic duration or a demand to review every day.
- A concern can involve a real uncertainty, an unresolved practical problem or something you cannot control. The page cannot tell whether a worry is reasonable, whether a problem has been solved or what another person intends. You can describe the experience without accepting a judgement that your thoughts are excessive, irrational or a failure of will.
Read four descriptions through six categories
- Each statement has did not notice, rarely, sometimes, often, very often and an unscored option. The interface records separate counts for these labels and retains your individual choices. Within this topic the six counts add to four descriptions. They are not four days, four episodes or four separate problems, and no label contributes points to a total.
- For a fictional example, one description selected sometimes, two selected often and one unscored produce counts of one, two and one in those categories. That arithmetic does not identify a strongest worry, a moderate level or a need for treatment. The record does not add category IDs, take their mean or choose a winning topic.
An unfinished concern and repeated thought differ
- Imagine that an ordinary plan depends on a reply you have not received. You may remember the same question returning while the needed information is still missing. A record can describe that experience, but it cannot decide that more thought was useless, that you should have contacted someone or that waiting was the correct choice.
- You may also remember having taken the practical step available to you while the concern remained. Those are two separate observations: what you could do and what you continued to notice. They do not prove that the situation was safe or resolved. No message checking, reassurance request or experiment is assigned to make the account more complete.
Keep this recent record distinct from the PTQ
- The separate PTQ on this site retains its published instruction about typical thinking concerning negative experiences or problems. It uses fifteen source statements and its own arithmetic. These twelve original observations instead make a recent recollection of worry, tension and ordinary activities. Neither form supplies missing answers for the other, and their numbers cannot be combined.
- The three topics here are overlapping editorial groupings, not validated independent dimensions. This is not GAD-7, a published anxiety scale or a clinical screen. No diagnosis, population rank, personality, probability or severity category follows from a response. English and Chinese measurement equivalence and the validity of these original groupings have not been established.
Leave room for uncertainty and privacy
- Use unscored when there is no relevant experience, recall is unclear or you prefer not to answer. This remains separate from did not notice and never becomes a zero. You need not reconstruct a difficult event, supply a private thought or identify another person. All four unscored descriptions can be completed without a personal interpretation being invented.
- A later recollection can differ because circumstances, opportunities or interpretations changed. That difference does not establish recovery, deterioration or a treatment effect. There is no target category and no schedule for repeating the record. You may keep one useful phrase, read a public guide or leave without trying to reduce a count.
A question about support needs no threshold
- You may ask a qualified healthcare or mental-health professional about worry without completing the record, reaching a count or waiting six months. The website cannot decide that a concern is too small to discuss or that a clinical condition explains it. The linked NIMH publication provides broader assessment background; it supplies none of these original items, keys or validation.
- Keep existing advice, care and safety support independent of this page. It cannot assess medical need or urgency, explain a physical symptom or establish that a sensation is harmless or only anxiety. Do not use a category to postpone assessment, change medication or cancel support. In immediate danger or if you cannot stay safe, seek local emergency assistance rather than continue.
A useful description can stay small
- An optional phrase could identify the ordinary task, the returning concern and what you would like to ask about. It need not explain the entire situation or reveal the content of a private thought. The page asks for no exposure, thought-suppression, checking or reassurance exercise. You can retain existing boundaries and decide that no further reflection would be useful today.
- Selections stay only in current-page memory, without a saved draft, submission, questionnaire analytics or a personal result address. Exiting, retaking, reloading and leaving clear them. Copying shares only the fixed public title and entry. Every complete guide remains public before answers, after all-unscored selections and for every categorical record.