"Is there an online depression test I can take?"

Yes, take the online depression test below to determine if you could be suffering from clinical depression. Knowing where you are at is the start of knowing how to find help!

[Please Note: This sample test is meant to help identify a possibility of depression. Only a health care professional can actually diagnose depression. Other medical conditions may cause similar symptoms. So, share the results of this online test with your doctor.]

depression test

1. Have you regularly suffered from the following in the past 2 weeks?

Constant sadness?

Lack of motivation?

Irritability?

Trouble concentrating?

Feelings of isolation, not as involved with family and friends?

Loss of interest in favorite activities?

Hopelessness?

Difficulty concentrating, remembering, making decisions?

Feeling worthless or guilty for no reason?

Thoughts of death or suicide?

Decreased energy, fatigue, being “slowed down”?

Trouble sleeping?

Appetite and/or weight changes?

Persistent physical symptoms, such as headaches, digestive disorders, and chronic pain?

2. Do any of the above affect your relationships/communication with family and friends, or your enjoyment of favorite hobbies or activities?

If you have answered ‘yes’ to a significant number of these questions of our online test, you may be considered clinically depressed. Now this is actually good news, because there is hope for your depression

>> 1. Please tell your doctor the results of your self-test. (Other medical conditions may cause similar symptoms.) 

>> 2. Read our report about 6 strategies for curing depression which is changing lives in over 120 countries to date.



What people are saying about the cure your depression research... 

“Your web site is absolutely fantastic! We will refer all of our clients to your web site.” –Anthony, Director of Mental Imaging Clinic, Las Vegas

"Hello Merri Ellen I am a therapist who runs out patient programs for people with mental health issues. One of my clients alerted me to your depression site today and I am impressed by both your energy and your generous contribution to others suffering with illness. Thank you. I have just completed reading through your info. Found it to be a wonderfully informative resource and will not have any problem in passing on your website address to some of my clients. The greatest value is in the fact that you have been a consumer and have a very different understanding than others may have. This allows you to be heard a little more readily sometimes. I thank you for your courage and wish you good health always. Regards" - Sue 

"I was on Wellbutrin and Prozac until using your techniques… I haven’t felt so good for so many consecutive days in 20 years... Thank you for your website and your incredible tips!!!" - Robyn, former depression sufferer


"Thank you so much for all the articles I receive in my e-mails. They have helped me alot. I have suffered with depression several years, and right now I am not taking any medication at all." - Mary, former depression sufferer

"I was telling [my husband] that last year at this time I was having anxiety and depression and was wanting to die, and now (one year later) I literally have waves of excitement and happiness. It's hard to describe, but I am really happy right now… Life is good. I cannot complain. I am healed!!!!! - Gloria, former depression sufferer


"I can only explain my gratitude by saying God must have brought you my way. I was just on the verge of requesting anti-depressants from my Dr. the day that I found your website. In the most natural, helpful fashion your research, the way you've set up the e-course, all of it just fed me with the step by step solutions I had been longing for for months. I will always read your work, updates you provide, your service is priceless. Thank you, your work is such a blessing!" - Alysha, on the journey


"I am 63 years old. Went through severe depression about 5 years ago. If I had ended it all, I wouldn’t have the joy in knowing my new grandchild. I followed the steps on this web sight and I’m certainly glad I did. I feel your pain, I hope you can find your way out. No one can do it for you. I’m off all medication and still experience sadness and disparities but those times do not last. I am cheering you on my peaceful home in Tulsa. Don’t forget to do your light therapy. Journaling helped me, Keep moving forward, you may find joy in your life next year." - Anonymous post in our Forum :)

"As a licensed clinical social worker and a woman with a life-time history of depression, I really commend you on the work you have done on this site." - Robyn, Social Worker

"I have been depressed for most of my life, have read many books and articles have taught others about depression, have taken various antidepressant medications. I have begun taking your advice on how to overcome depression for just over a week now.

I am encouraged at what i have read and i have put into practice what has been suggested. I have found that the research of Merri Ellen is very good, it is practical and makes common and medical sense. I fully agree that the medication is only part of the cure for depression, in that it takes away some of the worst symptoms of one's depression. The time to do something about one's depression is when the bad edge has been taken off. I have started the process you recommend and i am encouraged at my progress so far.

The big difference is that i have taken a decision to carefully put into practice what i have been told. So far so good and thank you for your advice. It has been a blessing to me." - Tony

"Dear Merri Ellen,

I offer you my heartfelt thanks! You have led me from a Dark Place, where I was stuck for years not wanting to continue, to a Bright Place. Here the colours are vivid, the sounds more acute, the future bright.

Oddly, I am having to adjust to this as familiar things are now unfamiliar but it is an exciting and agreeable process. I am on a steep learning curve!

I tried many other internet cures‚ without any success at all. You did it in 5 steps!

Thank you so very very much! May God bless you!

With my best wishes,

David"

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Reader Success Story:

"Dear Merri Ellen,
I offer you my heartfelt thanks! You have led me from a Dark Place, where I was stuck for years not wanting to continue, to a Bright Place. Here the colours are vivid, the sounds more acute, the future bright.

Oddly, I am having to adjust to this as familiar things are now unfamiliar but it is an exciting and agreeable process. I am on a steep learning curve!

I tried many other internet cures‚ without any success at all. You did it in 5 steps!

Thank you so very very much! May God bless you!

With my best wishes,

David"