The Stress-Detector Test
By Dr. Alice Domar and Alice Lesch Kelly
Stress-detector quiz
You're too anxious to sleep. Your nerves are supersizing. Nails—what nails? Are you suffering from ordinary stress? Or flipping off the charts? Alice Dormer, PhD, the director of the Mind/Body Center for Women's Health at Boston IVF, has designed a quiz to help you get a handle on your anxiety quotient. All you need is your mouse. Calm down. Breathe. No pressure. Not a soul will know how you score but you.
At Home
1. You're having friends over for dinner and the house is a mess. Do you…
2. How well do you keep up with responsibilities at home?
3. What's the food situation at home?
4. Is money a sore subject?
In Relationships
5. How are things with your significant other? (If you are single, skip to question 6.)
6. You are single and feeling…(If you answered question 5, skip to question 7.)
7. How stressful is your relationship with your parents?
8. How do you feel about children?
9. Do you have friends?
At Work
10. How do you like your job?
11. How secure do you feel at work?
12. What are your coworkers like?
Your Body
13. What do you say to yourself when you look in the mirror?
14. What do you order when you go to dinner with your girlfriends?
15. Why do you exercise?
16. How much time do you take to do something relaxing and enjoyable? (reading a novel, listening to music)?
17. You deal with major stress by…