Free Health Anxiety Test
Screen for health anxiety (hypochondria) with this confidential assessment.
Health Anxiety Screening
Question 1 of 8
This screening assesses worry and preoccupation with health concerns.
Do you worry a lot about your health?
Understanding
What is Health Anxiety (Hypochondria)?
Health Anxiety (previously called hypochondria or hypochondriasis) is characterised by excessive worry about having or developing a serious illness, despite medical reassurance. People with health anxiety misinterpret normal bodily sensations as signs of serious disease and seek frequent medical consultations or tests.
Health anxiety affects approximately 4-6% of the population and can be extremely distressing. The anxiety cycle involves noticing a bodily sensation, catastrophic interpretation, anxiety and checking behaviours, temporary relief, then renewed worry. This creates a self-perpetuating pattern that medical reassurance only temporarily alleviates.
Important: Your physical symptoms are real - anxiety causes genuine physiological responses. This free health anxiety test is a screening tool based on validated clinical measures. If you score high, CBT can help you break the anxiety cycle and find peace of mind.
Signs & Symptoms
Common Signs of Health Anxiety
Treatment
Evidence-Based Treatment for Health Anxiety
Health anxiety responds extremely well to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Our London therapists specialise in helping you break free from the health anxiety cycle:
CBT for Health Anxiety
CBT helps you understand the health anxiety cycle, challenge catastrophic thinking, reduce checking and reassurance-seeking, and learn to tolerate uncertainty about health. Success rates are very high.
Learn about health anxiety treatmentWhat You'll Learn
- • How anxiety creates real physical symptoms
- • Why reassurance makes anxiety worse long-term
- • How to tolerate uncertainty about health
- • Reducing checking and online searching
- • Accepting normal bodily variations
Resources
Health Anxiety Resources
Your Score
Understanding Your Score
Your total score gives a quick estimate of severity. Higher scores suggest symptoms are more frequent and more likely to affect daily life, sleep, work, or relationships.
Your responses suggest low levels of health anxiety.
Recommended next step: Maintain balanced health awareness
Your responses suggest some health anxiety that may benefit from attention.
Recommended next step: Limit health-related internet searches
Your responses suggest moderate health anxiety affecting your wellbeing.
Recommended next step: CBT is highly effective for health anxiety
Your responses suggest significant health anxiety requiring professional support.
Recommended next step: Please consider booking with a therapist
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions About Health Anxiety Testing
Frequently Asked Questions About Health Anxiety Testing
Is this health anxiety test clinically validated?
This screening is based on validated health anxiety measures used in clinical practice. It helps identify whether health anxiety may be affecting your life enough to warrant professional support.
What does the test measure?
It measures worry about health, preoccupation with illness, body checking, cyberchondria (online symptom searching), and how health concerns interfere with daily life.
Can this test diagnose health anxiety?
No. This is a screening tool. A qualified clinician can provide a fuller assessment and rule out any underlying medical concerns.
What score suggests I should get help?
A score in the moderate or significant range suggests CBT would be beneficial. Even lower scores matter if health worries are affecting your daily life or relationships.
What treatment works for health anxiety?
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is highly effective for health anxiety. It helps you break the anxiety cycle, reduce checking behaviours, and learn to tolerate uncertainty about health.
Are my physical symptoms real?
Yes. Anxiety causes genuine physiological responses — your physical symptoms are real. CBT helps you understand how anxiety creates and amplifies these sensations.
Important
When to Seek Help
If your score is in the moderate or significant range, or health worries are dominating your life, CBT can help significantly. Health anxiety responds very well to treatment.
If you have thoughts of self-harm or your anxiety feels overwhelming, seek urgent help through your GP, NHS 111, or Samaritans on 116 123.
Find Peace from Health Worries
CBT for health anxiety has excellent outcomes. Our therapists specialise in helping you break the anxiety cycle, reduce checking behaviours, and live without constant health fears.