Beck Depression Inventory
Choose one statement from among the group of four statements in each question that best describes
how you have been feeling during the past few days. Circle the number beside your choice.
1 0 I do not feel sad. 8 0 I don’t feel I am any worse than anybody else.
1 I feel sad. 1 I am critical of myself for my weaknesses or
2 I am sad all the time and I can’t snap out of it. mistakes.
3 I am so sad or unhappy that I can’t stand it. 2 I blame myself all the time for my faults.
3 I blame myself for everything bad that happens.
2 0 I am not particularly discouraged about the 9 0 I don’t have any thoughts of killing myself.
future. 1 I have thoughts of killing myself, but I would not
1 I feel discouraged about the future. carry them out.
2 I feel I have nothing to look forward to. 2 I would like to kill myself.
3 I feel that the future is hopeless and that things 3 I would kill myself if I had the chance.
cannot improve.
3 0 I do not feel like a failure. 10 0 I don’t cry any more than usual.
1 I feel I have failed more than the average person. 1 I cry more now than I used to.
2 As I look back on my life, all I can see is a lot of 2 I cry all the time now.
failure. 3 I used to be able to cry, but now I can’t cry even
3 I feel I am a complete failure as a person. though I want to.
4 0 I get as much satisfaction out of things as I used 11 0 I am no more irritated by things than I ever am.
to. 1 I am slightly more irritated now than usual.
1 I don’t enjoy things the way I used to. 2 I am quite annoyed or irritated a good deal of
2 I don’t get any real satisfaction out of anything the time.
anymore. 3 I feel irritated all the time now.
3 I am dissatisfied or bored with everything.
5 0 I don’t feel particularly guilty. 12 0 I have not lost interest in other people.
1 I feel guilty a good part of the time. 1 I am less interested in other people than I used
2 I feel quite guilty most of the time. to be.
3 I feel guilty all of the time. 2 I have lost most of my interest in other people.
3 I have lost all of my interest in other people.
6 0 I don’t feel I am being punished. 13 0 I make decisions about as well as I ever could.
1 I feel I may be punished. 1 I put off making decisions more than I used to.
2 I expect to be punished. 2 I have greater difficulty in making decisions than
3 I feel I am being punished. before.
3 I can’t make decisions at all anymore.
7 0 I don’t feel disappointed in myself. 14 0 I don’t feel that I look any worse than I used to.
1 I am disappointed in myself. 1 I am worried that I am looking old or
2 I am disgusted with myself. unattractive.
3 I hate myself. 2 I feel that there are permanent changes in my
appearance that make me look unattractive.
3 I believe that I look ugly.
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15 0 I can work about as well as before. 19 0 I haven’t lost much weight, if any, lately.
1 It takes an extra effort to get started at doing 1 I have lost more than five pounds.
something. 2 I have lost more than ten pounds.
2 I have to push myself very hard to do anything. 3 I have lost more than fifteen pounds. (Score 0 if
3 I can’t do any work at all. you have been purposely trying to lose weight.)
16 0 I can sleep as well as usual. 20 0 I am no more worried about my health than
1 I don’t sleep as well as I used to. usual.
2 I wake up 1-2 hours earlier than usual and find it 1 I am worried about physical problems such as
hard to get back to sleep. aches and pains, or upset stomach, or
3 I wake up several hours earlier than I used to and constipation.
cannot get back to sleep. 2 I am very worried about physical problems, and
it’s hard to think of much else.
3 I am so worried about my physical problems that
I cannot think about anything else.
17 0 I don’t get more tired than usual. 21 0 I have not noticed any recent change in my
1 I get tired more easily than I used to. interest in sex.
2 I get tired from doing almost anything. 1 I am less interested in sex than I used to be.
3 I am too tired to do anything. 2 I am much less interested in sex now.
3 I have lost interest in sex completely.
18 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. TOTAL: _____________
3 I have no appetite at all anymore.
SCORING
1 – 10: These ups and downs are considered normal
11 – 16: Mild mood disturbance
17 – 20: Borderline clinical depression
21 – 30: Moderate depression
31 – 40: Severe depression
Over 40: Extreme depression
