1. Do you tire easily?
No change
Slight change
Some change
Still more
Big!
2. Do people tell you, "You don't look so good lately"?
3. Are you working harder and accomplishing less?
4. Are you increasingly cynical and disenchanted?
5. Are you often invaded by sadness you can't explain?
6. Are you forgetting things such as appointments and deadlines?
7. Are you increasingly irritable? Short tempered? Disappointed in people around you?
8. Are you seeing close friends and family members less frequently?
9. Are you too busy to do even routine things like make phone calls, read reports, or send out Christmas cards?
10. Are you suffering from aches, pains, headaches, a lingering cold?
11. Do you feel disoriented when the activity of the day comes to a halt?
12. Is joy elusive?
13. Are you unable to laugh at a joke about yourself?
14. Does sex seem like more trouble than it's worth?
15. Do you have very little to say?
* This self-test was devised by Canada's Dr. Herbert J. Freudenberger. It appeared in an article by Dorothy Lipovenko in the Globe & Mail Newspaper, June 4, 1981.
