Start with what you have actually been noticing over the last two weeks, not with the label you are worried about. This guide walks through the nine areas our self-checks cover and which one matches which experience.
By Sam Roberts, MA Professional Counselling; Clinical Supervisor (ACA) — last reviewed 2026-09-05
Choose the self-check that matches what you have noticed most often in the last two weeks, not the diagnosis you are worried about. If mood and interest have dropped, start with the emotional wellbeing check. If your mind will not settle, start with anxiety and worry. If you are running on empty, start with stress and burnout. If the difficulty is with another person, start with the relationship or communication check. Each takes three to eight minutes and gives you a plain-language summary and a suggested next step.
Most people arrive at a self-check with a candidate explanation already in mind: burnout, anxiety, ADHD, depression. That is a reasonable place to begin a search, but it is a poor place to begin a measurement, because the label is the thing you are trying to test rather than the evidence you have. The more useful starting point is descriptive. What has changed? When did it change? How often does it show up, and where?
Descriptions travel better than labels. Sleep that has been broken for a month, a temper that arrives faster than it used to, avoidance of a particular meeting, a conversation with a partner that ends the same way every time — those are the details a self-check is built to organise, and they are also the details a clinician will ask for if you eventually decide to speak to someone.
If several things have changed at once, pick the one that is costing you the most right now. You can take a second self-check afterwards; nothing about the first choice locks you in, and the result page will usually point you at the related check anyway.
Low mood, loss of interest, flatness, tearfulness and a sense that ordinary things now require effort belong to the emotional wellbeing group. This is the area with the most search demand in Singapore and also the area where people most often self-label prematurely. A structured check gives you a two-week picture rather than a snapshot of a bad day.
If the dominant experience is worry — a mind that will not switch off, physical tension, anticipating problems, difficulty sleeping because of thinking — the anxiety and worry group is the better fit. Worry and low mood frequently travel together, and it is entirely reasonable to complete both and compare.
If the dominant experience is intensity rather than direction — emotions that arrive faster and larger than the situation warrants, difficulty coming back down, or the opposite pattern of shutting off entirely — the emotional regulation check describes that better than either of the above.
Exhaustion that sleep does not repair, cynicism about work that is out of character, dread on a Sunday evening and a shrinking capacity for anything outside the essentials point towards stress and burnout. The distinguishing question is trajectory: burnout usually has a beginning you can locate, and it usually eases, slowly, with genuine recovery.
Difficulty starting, finishing, remembering and organising points towards the attention and focus group. Before assuming this is a lifelong pattern, ask whether it was present before the current difficult period, whether it shows up in more than one part of your life, and whether it persisted during calmer stretches. Three yeses make an attention self-check the sensible next step; a pattern that began eighteen months ago and eases on holiday is better served by the burnout check first.
When the recurring problem lives in a relationship, choose by what the pattern looks like rather than by how upset you feel. If the theme is distance, the relationship connection check fits. If the theme is the way conversations go wrong under pressure, choose the communication check. If the same argument keeps returning in the same shape regardless of the topic, the conflict pattern check is the one that will describe it.
If the theme is closeness itself — needing more reassurance than you would like, or pulling away when things get close — the attachment pattern check looks underneath the individual arguments at the expectations driving them.
Parent-completed checks for children aged five to twelve cover emotional wellbeing, worry, anger and regulation, behaviour and emotional needs, school adjustment and attention. They are completed by you about your child, and they describe what you have observed rather than testing the child.
For teenagers, the language and the pathway are deliberately different, and parent-facing adolescent support sits on ProTeens rather than here. If the question is really about you as a parent — the strain of it, your own reactions, how consistent things feel at home — the parenting and caregiving checks are the honest place to start, and there is no wrong answer in admitting that.
Every self-check ends the same way: a plain-language summary of what your answers suggest, what that typically means in daily life, and one suggested next step. Nothing is published, nothing is shared without your consent, and you are never told that you have a condition.
If the result concerns you, the next step is a conversation rather than another test. A fifteen-minute consultation exists precisely for the situation where you have a result in front of you and no idea what to do with it.
This article is general information, not clinical advice, and nothing in it diagnoses anything. If what you read here matches your experience closely, that is a reason to speak to someone qualified rather than a conclusion in itself.