Health Anxiety Test

Health anxiety can feel exhausting—especially when your mind keeps scanning for signs that something is wrong. This short health anxiety test is designed to help you understand whether health anxiety may be affecting you, and what tends to be keeping it going.

Your results will highlight common patterns such as:

• Body scanning and symptom checking
• Googling symptoms / seeking certainty online
• Reassurance-seeking (from doctors, loved ones, or repeated tests)
• “What if?” thinking and worst-case interpretations
• Avoidance of situations, places, or health information that triggers anxiety

You’ll get personalised feedback on what your answers suggest is driving your anxiety right now, plus a recommended next step—to help you reduce the cycle.

This is an educational self-check, not a diagnosis. If you’re worried about a symptom or have new or severe symptoms, it’s always appropriate to speak with a GP.

A clearer picture, one question at a time

Understand your health worry cycle

Think about the past month and choose what best fits your experience. Your feedback explains the pattern your answers suggest, what may keep it going, and where to start.

9 questionsAbout 3 minutesNo email needed

This self-check is for adults. The questionnaire itself does not send or save your answers. They are cleared when you reload or leave this page.

You can read the questions below. Enable JavaScript for the step-by-step questionnaire and personalised feedback.

Do you keep worrying that a symptom or bodily change means serious illness?

This asks about recurring worry, not whether you have a medical condition.

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Do you repeatedly examine your body or check measurements to feel reassured?

Do not count monitoring that is part of an agreed medical plan.

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Do you repeatedly search for symptoms, illnesses or explanations online?

Think about searching that continues after you have obtained relevant information.

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Do you repeatedly ask other people or professionals to reassure you about the same health fear?

Appropriate medical consultation is different from returning to the same question for brief relief.

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Does your attention repeatedly return to sensations, lumps, pain or other bodily changes?

Include mentally scanning for signs that something is wrong.

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Do you avoid ordinary activities, health information or medical appointments mainly because of illness fears?

Do not count restrictions your clinician has advised.

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Do you feel you cannot move on without being completely sure you are well?

Consider the wish for certainty beyond what an agreed medical plan can provide.

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Does reassurance or a check help briefly, then the same fear or a new one returns?

Look at what happens after relief, not just whether relief occurs.

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How much has this affected your work, study, relationships or ordinary activities?

Choose the answer that best reflects your own experience.

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How to understand this self-check

Health anxiety concerns the relationship between worry, attention and coping responses. It can occur alongside a genuine health condition. A CBT formulation considers triggers, interpretations, checking, avoidance and the wider context; ACT also explores how worry affects valued activities.

The questions are an original educational self-check, rather than a validated diagnostic instrument. Results reflect the combinations, frequency and impact you report; they do not provide a probability of diagnosis or a clinical severity score.

Read the health anxiety guide for more information.