Mood Disorder Self-Assessment
Explores experiences related to periods of unusually elevated mood, energy, or activity that may be associated with bipolar patterns.
What this assessment explores
If you've noticed periods in your life where your energy, mood, or behaviour shifted dramatically – feeling unusually high, wired, or unlike yourself – this assessment helps you explore what that might mean. It looks at symptoms associated with bipolar disorder: not just the lows, but the elevated or activated states that often go unrecognised or misattributed to something else. It's built on the MDQ, a clinically validated screening tool for bipolar disorders.
See the original scaleWhat you can expect
There are 15 questions, and they'll ask you to reflect on experiences you may have had at any point in your life – not just recently.
The questions touch on things like:
- Periods of unusually elevated mood, increased energy, or reduced need for sleep
- Racing thoughts, distractibility, or feeling unusually confident or grandiose
- Impulsive or risky behaviour that felt out of character
- Whether these experiences clustered together and affected your functioning
Your responses give you a clearer picture of whether your mood history might warrant a closer look – and what kind of pattern your experiences suggest.
Why this is free and private
Insightable Mind is built by clinical and research psychologists to help people better understand themselves, while contributing to meaningful psychological research. These assessments are offered free as part of that work. Your responses are private – when data is used for research, it's fully anonymised and combined with others to help improve the assessments and answer important questions about human psychology.
Top tips
Our best advice to help you get the most out of your self-assessment:
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