What Disorder Do I Have? Quiz: See Which Two Symptom Patterns Stand Out, Plus Your Next Test
For anyone who has typed what disorder do I have, what is wrong with me, or am I crazy into a search bar. This quiz asks 32 plain questions across eight symptom patterns, low mood, anxiety and panic, obsessions and compulsions, trauma and dissociation, attention, mood swings and energy, eating and body image, and relationship and self-image, and shows you which two stand out, with a direct route to the deeper test for each. It is scored in your browser. It names patterns, never a disorder, because no quiz can do that.
Reviewed byMichael Callans, MSWWhat Disorder Do I Have? Quiz is a free, confidential 32-question self-assessment, educational pattern finder · not a diagnostic test. It takes about 6 minutes, runs entirely in your browser, and gives you a plain-language profile of your strongest style plus an optional in-depth report. It is an educational screening, not a diagnosis.
Eight symptom patterns, the two that stand out, and where to go next
You do not need the right clinical word to know something is off. This quiz asks about the eight symptom patterns that account for most of what people are searching for when they type what disorder do I have, in plain language, and shows you which two came out strongest in your answers. It then points you at the specific test for each, which is what a quiz can honestly do; the question of whether any of it is a disorder belongs to a clinician who can sit with you and ask the questions a web page cannot.
Eight symptom patterns, four questions each
Low mood, anxiety and panic, obsessions and compulsions, trauma and dissociation, attention and executive function, mood swings and energy, eating and body image, and relationship and self-image patterns. Most what-disorder quizzes cover two or three and then name one. This covers the eight that cause most of the searching.
The two that stand out, not a verdict
The result shows all eight as bars and reads the top two for you, because real difficulties overlap far more often than they come one at a time. Each reading ends with the exact deeper test to take, so the next step is named rather than guessed.
Direct about safety, honest about limits
Two questions ask plainly about hopelessness and about thoughts of self-harm, with crisis support named right there. And the page explains why no quiz, including this one, can tell you what disorder you have, and what an actual assessment involves.
| Feature | Typical free quiz | Psychology.com |
|---|---|---|
| Names a disorder as your result | Usually | Never; two patterns and the next test |
| Covers eight symptom patterns, not two or three | Rarely | Yes, four questions each |
| Reads your top two patterns, since difficulties overlap | No, one label | Yes, both with a route onward |
| Asks about hopelessness and self-harm directly | Often avoided | Yes, two plain questions, 988 named |
| Explains what a clinician's assessment actually involves | No | Yes |
| Clinician-reviewed interpretation | Rarely | Yes, clinician reviewed |
| Answers stay on your device | Often collected | Scored in your browser; only summary scores if you request a PDF or report |
The 8 patterns this test measures
- Low mood pattern: Flatness, lost interest, hopelessness, and in some cases thoughts of not being here.
- Anxiety and panic pattern: Worry that will not stop, tension, dread, and sudden waves of panic.
- Obsessions and compulsions pattern: Intrusive thoughts you cannot shake, and rituals or checking that briefly quiet them.
- Trauma and dissociation pattern: Reminders that hit hard, being on guard, numbness, and feeling unreal or far away.
- Attention and executive pattern: Losing focus, losing things, starting but not finishing, and time slipping away.
- Mood swings and energy pattern: Stretches of racing energy and little sleep, then crashes; moods that swing further than the situation.
- Eating and body image pattern: Food and your body taking up far too much of your mind, with restriction, bingeing or purging.
- Relationship and self-image pattern: Intense and unstable relationships, a shifting sense of who you are, and a fear of being left.
If nothing is endorsed, every pattern scores the same, or the leading patterns tie, the result says so instead of naming a single pattern.
How this quiz is scored
You rate 32 statements about the past month from not at all (0) to nearly all the time (4). Each statement belongs to one of eight symptom patterns, four per pattern, so each pattern scores out of 16 and is shown as a percentage of that maximum. The pattern with the highest bar is your leading result, and the quiz asks you to read the second bar alongside it, because in both research and clinical practice, difficulties overlap far more often than they arrive one at a time: anxiety with low mood, trauma with attention problems, eating difficulties with self-image patterns. If your top two bars tie, the page shows both readings rather than picking one.
Two of the low-mood questions ask directly about hopelessness and about thoughts of self-harm or of not being here. They are scored like the others, and they are also flagged: a note naming crisis support sits beside the self-harm question, the low-mood reading addresses those answers directly whatever the rest of your bars show, and the page asks you to treat a yes to either as more important than anything else in your result. The quiz cannot float a result above a floor the way a single-score screener can, so please take that reading seriously on your own account.
Everything here is our own educational design. The eight groupings follow the symptom families that clinicians and researchers use, but the four statements in each are not a validated subscale, there are no norms, and the percentages are shares of your own answers rather than comparisons with anyone else.
Why no quiz can tell you what disorder you have
A mental health diagnosis is not a pattern of symptoms on its own. In the manual clinicians use, the DSM-5-TR, every diagnosis also requires that the symptoms have lasted a certain time, cause real distress or get in the way of daily life, and are not better explained by something else: a medical condition, a medication, a substance, grief, or a different disorder that produces the same surface. Low mood that comes from an underactive thyroid, panic that comes from too much caffeine on no sleep, and a fog that comes from untreated sleep apnea can each look exactly like a disorder on a questionnaire and are not one. No web page can check any of that.
That is why the same symptom can belong to several diagnoses and why an assessment takes a trained person. A clinician's evaluation usually involves a long conversation about what is happening now and how it started, your history and your family's, your sleep, substances and physical health, often a validated questionnaire or two, and sometimes a referral for blood work or a medical check. They are looking for the pattern across time and context, not just the symptoms in the past month. The result is a working understanding that can change as they learn more, which is a very different thing from a label a quiz spits out.
What a quiz can do honestly is help you notice a pattern and name it well enough to get to the right next step faster. That is the whole purpose of this one. If you want a quick read on the most common question, am I crazy, the answer is almost certainly no: crazy is not a clinical word, and what it usually points at, low mood, anxiety, overload, trauma or grief, has a name, is common, and is treatable.
How this quiz relates to the other mental health tests here
This page is the broad pattern finder. The Mental Health Assessment test is a different thing: it uses the validated K10, a ten-question measure of overall psychological distress with research-based cutoffs, and gives you one score rather than a profile. If you want a single validated number, take that one. The Am I Okay? Mental Health Check-In check-in sits between the two, a plain-language read across mood, worry, thinking and daily life with a critical-item safety floor. The Do I Need Therapy? Quiz asks the practical question directly.
Below those sit the specific tests this quiz routes to. For low mood, the Depression Test; for anxiety and panic, the Anxiety Test and Panic Disorder Test tests; for obsessions and compulsions, the OCD Test (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) test; for trauma and dissociation, the PTSD Test (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) and Dissociation Test tests; for attention, the ADHD Test (Adult) test; for mood swings and energy, the Bipolar Test; for eating and body image, the Eating Disorder Test; and for relationship and self-image patterns, the Personality Disorder Test. Each is a closer look at one pattern, with its own research behind it, and each is still a screening rather than a diagnosis.
What to do with your result
Take the two deeper tests your result names. They will give you a more specific and more useful picture than a broad quiz can, and bringing both results to a professional turns a vague first appointment into a focused one. Then book that appointment. You do not need a diagnosis to see a therapist, and you do not need to be in crisis; the best time to talk to someone is usually before things get heavier. If sleep, appetite, energy or your body have changed a lot, see a doctor as well, so that physical causes can be checked.
If either of the safety questions applied to you, that comes first, ahead of any test. Call or text 988 in the US any time, go to an emergency room if you feel unsafe, or tell one person you trust today. The patterns this quiz measures are real and they are treatable, and you deserve help with them from a person rather than a page.
Methodology & sources
This quiz is an original educational pattern finder written to answer the question people actually type into a search bar, not to reproduce any validated instrument. Its eight symptom patterns follow the broad families that clinicians and researchers use: depressive, anxiety and panic, obsessive-compulsive, trauma- and dissociation-related, attention and executive, bipolar-spectrum mood and energy, feeding and eating, and personality-related relationship and self-image patterns, as organized in the DSM-5-TR (American Psychiatric Association, 2022). The 32 statements are our own writing, in everyday language, four per pattern. No items from the PHQ-9, GAD-7, K10 or any other validated screener are reproduced, and the eight groupings are editorial, not validated subscales. The page is marked as not validated accordingly.
The design choice to show two patterns rather than one follows the epidemiology. The National Comorbidity Survey Replication (Kessler et al., 2005) found that lifetime mental disorders are common, affecting close to half of US adults, and that they frequently co-occur; a quiz that names a single label hides exactly the overlap most people are living with. The two safety questions on hopelessness and thoughts of self-harm are included because they are common, because asking plainly does not increase risk, and because a reader who endorses them needs a direct pointer to support rather than a pattern name. Scores are shares of your own answers; there are no norms and no cutoffs, and nothing on this page is a diagnosis.
References
- American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 5th ed., text revision. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association; 2022.
- Kessler RC, Berglund P, Demler O, Jin R, Merikangas KR, Walters EE. Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of DSM-IV disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication. Archives of General Psychiatry. 2005;62(6):593-602. doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.62.6.593
- Kroenke K, Spitzer RL, Williams JB. The PHQ-9: validity of a brief depression severity measure. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2001;16(9):606-613. doi.org/10.1046/j.1525-1497.2001.016009606.x
- 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. About 988. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. 988lifeline.org/about/
Cite this source
Psychology.com. (2026, October 20). What Disorder Do I Have? Quiz. Psychology.com. https://psychology.com/tests/what-disorder-do-i-have
What Disorder Do I Have? Quiz FAQ
Can this quiz tell me what disorder I have?
No, and neither can any other quiz. A diagnosis needs a trained clinician who can look at how long symptoms have lasted, how much they interfere with your life, and whether something else explains them, from a medical condition to a medication to grief. What this quiz can do is show which two symptom patterns stand out in your answers and point you at the right deeper test, so you get to a useful conversation faster.
Am I crazy?
Almost certainly not. Crazy is not a clinical word; it is what people reach for when a feeling is frightening or unfamiliar. What it usually points at, low mood, anxiety, overload, trauma or grief, has a name, is common, and is treatable. Putting an accurate name to it tends to make it smaller, not bigger.
What does a real assessment involve?
Usually a long conversation about what is happening now and how it started, your history and your family's, sleep, substances and physical health, often one or two validated questionnaires, and sometimes blood work or a medical check to rule out physical causes. The clinician is looking for the pattern across time and context, and the understanding they reach can change as they learn more. It is nothing like answering a web page.
Why does it ask about hopelessness and self-harm?
Because they are common, because asking plainly does not make them worse, and because a person who answers yes needs a direct pointer to support rather than a pattern name. If either applied to you, please treat that as the most important part of your result: call or text 988 in the US any time, go to an emergency room if you feel unsafe, or tell someone you trust today.
Is the test really confidential?
Yes. It runs entirely in your browser. Your individual answers are scored in your browser and are never sent to us or linked to you. They stay in this tab so you can return to your result, and closing or clearing the tab clears them. If you ask us to email the PDF, we receive your summary scores with your email address, never your individual answers. No account is needed.
How is this different from the Mental Health Assessment or the Am I Okay check-in?
The Mental Health Assessment uses the validated K10 and gives one overall distress score with research-based cutoffs. The Am I Okay? check-in is a plain-language read across four areas with a safety floor. This quiz is the broad pattern finder: eight patterns, the two that stand out, and a named next test for each. If you are not sure where to start, the Do I Need Therapy? quiz asks the practical question directly.