Mental Health Assessments

Mental health assessments are the most direct way to put a number on something that often feels hard to describe. A few minutes answering structured questions turns "I think I have been more anxious lately" into a score you can compare against last month's, share with a clinician, or simply use to decide whether support might help.

Mindtalk offers a library of 99 clinically validated mental health assessments in the Mindtalk app, covering anxiety, depression, stress and sleep, trauma, OCD, addiction, eating disorders, dissociation, and broader wellbeing. Each assessment is a recognised clinical scale — the same instruments used by psychiatrists and clinical psychologists in everyday practice — and each result is stored privately in your account so you can track changes over weeks and months.

What these assessments are — and what they are not

Every assessment in the library is a screening tool, not a diagnostic test. A high score means your responses match the symptom pattern the scale is designed to detect; it does not mean you have the condition. Diagnosis requires a clinician's full assessment and clinical judgement.

The scales are still genuinely useful for three things: noticing a change before it becomes a crisis, having a structured way to explain how you are feeling to a doctor or therapist, and watching how scores shift as therapy or medication takes effect. Used that way, assessments are a tool for self-awareness and shared decision-making — not a verdict.

How to choose a scale

The categories below group the 99 assessments by clinical domain. If you already know what you are looking for, pick the category that fits. If you are not sure, two scales work well as starting points:

• WHO-5 Well-being Index — five questions on overall wellbeing. A low score (below 50) is a useful prompt to look more closely.
• DASS-21 (Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale) — twenty-one questions covering the three most common mood difficulties in one pass. Good when the question is "is there something going on, and if so, which?"

From either of those, the more specific scales (GAD-7, PHQ-9, PSS-10) give sharper detail.

Crisis-sensitive assessments

Four assessments in the library — C-SSRS, ACSS-FAD, INQ-15, NSSI-AT — relate to suicide risk and self-harm. These are not available as self-test tools on Mindtalk. Taking a structured suicide-risk assessment alone, without a clinician's support, can compound distress without giving you a path to help. If you are thinking about suicide or self-harm, please book a consultation with a Mindtalk clinician directly, or contact iCall on 9152987821 for immediate support.

After you take an assessment

When you take an assessment in the Mindtalk app, you will see your score alongside a plain-language interpretation — what the score range typically suggests, and whether speaking with a clinician is likely to help. Every result is saved to your account so you can:

• See the same scale over time as a graph
• Share results with a Mindtalk clinician during a session
• Use the score as a baseline before starting a psychotherapy or CBT course

For specific conditions, our anxiety and depression hubs explain what the assessment results typically mean, and what treatments are most effective for each pattern.