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📄 Sample report — illustrative profile (fictional persona). Your real report is assessed from YOUR answers after the test.

Hello Emma,

Overall result

Moderate anxiety

Your overall anxiety level is moderate (50%). Some dimensions weigh more heavily than others: targeted, preventive work would be helpful.

Your profile at a glance

GeneralisedworrySocial anxietyPanic attacksHealth anxietyPerformanceanxietyPhysicalsymptomsAvoidance &safety behavioursChronic stress &overloadRumination &anticipationFunctionalimpact

Detailed analysis

Generalised worryMild worry

This tendency is present in you — here is what it sheds light on.

Your worry is mild (40%). It remains manageable but can weigh on you during busy stretches.

Your generalised worry stays mild (40%), which is a point of relative stability in your profile. Seen in context, however, it interacts with high levels of social anxiety, health anxiety and chronic stress, suggesting that this background worry can intensify during periods of overload or social contact. One avenue worth considering: the mild worry you report may be kept in check by avoidance or coping strategies that work in part, but leave room for other expressions (physical symptoms, functional impact). If this reading resonates, it could explain why you feel generally overwhelmed despite a worry you perceive as 'mild'.

Recommendations

  • Set aside a limited 'worry time' to contain your concerns.
  • Try slow breathing or heart coherence as a daily practice.
Social anxietyMarked social anxiety

This tendency is clear in you — here is what it reveals, to understand and move forward.

Your social anxiety is marked (60%). It often pushes you to avoid others, or to suffer in their presence.

Your social anxiety is marked (60%), making it one of your main vulnerabilities. In a 36-year-old woman, this can show up as holding back in work meetings, awkwardness in informal interactions, or a heavy emotional load before social events. This score is significantly intertwined with your high functional impact: social anxiety can restrict your professional or relational opportunities, gradually creating an isolation that reinforces the anxiety. One hypothesis: if you regularly avoid social situations, the brain reads that absence as confirmation of the perceived danger, sustaining the anxiety. If this dynamic feels familiar, graded and repeated exposure could gradually shift that interpretation.

Recommendations

  • List a hierarchy of situations and face them step by step.
  • CBT for social anxiety produces excellent results.
Panic attacksMild manifestations

This tendency is present in you — here is what it sheds light on.

You show a few mild manifestations (40%), without a genuine panic disorder.

Your panic manifestations stay mild (40%), which is reassuring and suggests you are not experiencing a structured panic disorder. Yet, seen alongside your marked physical symptoms (60%) and high health anxiety (60%), it is possible that you experience intense physical sensations (racing heart, breathlessness, muscle tension) and interpret them as dangerous, which amplifies the anxious cycle. The good news: this kind of spiral defuses effectively once you understand that anxiety itself produces the symptoms, and that these symptoms, however uncomfortable, signal no medical danger.

Recommendations

  • Get familiar with slow abdominal breathing.
  • Remind yourself that an attack, though distressing, is not dangerous.
Health anxietyMarked health anxiety

This tendency is clear in you — here is what it reveals, to understand and move forward.

Your health anxiety is marked (60%): checking and worrying take up time and energy.

Your health anxiety is marked (60%), and it likely creates a self-sustaining loop: you notice a physical sensation (rapid heartbeat, pain, breathlessness), you seek reassurance (a medical check, an online search, asking a loved one for reassurance), you feel relieved for a moment, then the anxiety returns. At 36, this dimension can be especially salient if family or work responsibilities make you conscious of your health. What keeps the cycle going: each check, though reassuring in the short term, sends the brain the message 'you must keep watch, there is danger,' which heightens the hypervigilance. One avenue to explore: have you noticed that the less you check, the less you think about it?

Recommendations

  • Gradually reduce checking and reassurance-seeking (they sustain the anxiety).
  • CBT for health anxiety is effective.
Performance anxietyMild pressure

This tendency is present in you — here is what it sheds light on.

You feel mild pressure (40%), more stimulating than not.

Your performance anxiety stays mild (40%), suggesting that pressure itself is not your main problem. That is a relative asset in a profile where social anxiety and functional impact are high: it means you probably have the capacity to mobilise and organise yourself in the face of challenges. Yet this mild dimension contrasts with your marked overload (60%), which may indicate that you carry little internal pressure, but that the accumulation of tasks (social anxiety, stress management) deprives you of the resource that positive stimulation could be. In other words: you are not paralysed by perfectionism, but you are exhausted by the load.

Recommendations

  • Turn pressure into energy through structured preparation.
  • Aim for 'good enough' rather than perfect.
Physical symptomsMarked symptoms

This tendency is clear in you — here is what it reveals, to understand and move forward.

Your physical symptoms are marked (60%): your body often stays on alert.

Your physical symptoms are marked (60%), indicating that your nervous system often remains on alert. This cluster of symptoms (muscle tension, fatigue, sleep problems, sensations of breathlessness, palpitations) is characteristic of chronic sympathetic activation. In context, you also have marked health anxiety (60%): one possibility is that you interpret these legitimate physical symptoms (the product of chronic stress) as medical signs, which amplifies the health anxiety and sustains the physical activation. On top of that, the marked functional impact (60%) suggests these symptoms affect your sleep and concentration, creating a vicious circle: poor sleep → more anxiety → more symptoms.

Recommendations

  • Practise relaxation, heart coherence or yoga regularly.
  • A medical opinion can rule out any organic cause and reassure you.
Avoidance & safety behavioursMild avoidance

This tendency is present in you — here is what it sheds light on.

Your avoidance is mild (40%) and restricts your life only a little.

Your avoidance stays mild (40%) and restricts your life only a little, which is rather favourable. Unlike profiles where avoidance is severe and brings on a gradual narrowing of life, you keep the capacity to face anxiety-provoking situations. Still, in connection with your marked social anxiety (60%) and your high functional impact (60%), one hypothesis is that you do not avoid social situations entirely, but that you go through them with significant suffering, creating cumulative emotional fatigue. In other words: you keep going, but it costs you a great deal of energy.

Recommendations

  • Reduce one safety behaviour at a time.
  • Face one avoided situation per week, step by step.
Chronic stress & overloadMarked overload

This tendency is clear in you — here is what it reveals, to understand and move forward.

Your overload is marked (60%): you often feel overwhelmed and tired.

Your overload is marked (60%), which largely explains your overall profile. At 36, as a woman, you are probably juggling professional, family and domestic responsibilities, often without an equitable distribution. This chronic overload keeps your nervous system in constant alert, hence your physical symptoms (60%) and your functional impact (60%). One avenue: chronic stress is the 'soil' on which social anxiety (fewer cognitive resources to manage interactions) and health anxiety (hypervigilance to stress translating into bodily hypervigilance) grow. If you could significantly ease this load, many of your other difficulties would naturally diminish.

Recommendations

  • Lighten and delegate what can be delegated: set priorities.
  • Actively protect your sleep and your rest time.
Rumination & anticipationMild rumination

This tendency is present in you — here is what it sheds light on.

Your rumination is mild (40%) and occasional.

Your rumination stays mild (40%), which is another relative strength. You are not trapped in obsessive thoughts. However, in a context of social anxiety (60%) and functional impact (60%), it is possible that your rumination is situational rather than generalised: for example, after a social interaction, you replay it on a loop ('should I have said that?', 'did I look stupid?'). This occasional rumination is enough to affect your sleep and your concentration. One reading lens: here, rumination is tied less to obsessive thoughts than to anxious anticipation (what will happen socially?) or a critical review after the fact.

Recommendations

  • Practise mindfulness to come back to the present.
  • Write your thoughts down to step out of the loop.
Functional impactMarked impact

This tendency is clear in you — here is what it reveals, to understand and move forward.

The impact is marked (60%): sleep, concentration or relationships are affected.

Your functional impact is marked (60%), meaning that anxiety and stress tangibly affect your sleep, your concentration at work, your relational life or your general well-being. This is the most important consequence of your profile: anxiety is no longer an internal experience handled in the background, but something that erodes your capacity to function. This high score justifies proactive care. It reflects the accumulation of several high dimensions (social anxiety, health anxiety, physical symptoms, chronic stress), creating a 'weight' too heavy to carry alone. At 36, this impact can also interfere with professional ambitions or a relationship, reinforcing the feeling of being overwhelmed.

Recommendations

  • Target the most disabling dimension first (often sleep).
  • Support would help limit the knock-on effects.

Profile synthesis

Your anxiety and stress profile is moderate overall (50%), but it reveals a complex structure marked by several intensity peaks: social anxiety (60%), health anxiety (60%), physical symptoms (60%), chronic stress/overload (60%) and functional impact (60%). These high dimensions form a mutually sustaining system, which explains why you often feel overwhelmed despite lighter areas (generalised worry, panic, rumination). At 36, as a woman, you are probably facing multiple responsibilities (professional, family, domestic) that feed chronic stress, which in turn reinforces social anxiety (fewer resources for interactions) and somatises into physical symptoms (tension, fatigue, sleep disturbances). Health anxiety seems to act as a 'sensor' for these legitimate physical symptoms of stress, creating a spiral: stress → symptoms → health worry → hypervigilance → more symptoms. Your strength: you do not avoid massively, you keep a capacity to mobilise (mild performance anxiety), and your rumination stays occasional. This means your basic resources are intact. The main challenge is to ease the chronic overload (area A) and to reduce the anxious cycles (areas B and C), which would create a positive domino effect: less stress → fewer physical symptoms → less health anxiety → more resources for social interactions → better overall functioning.

How your dimensions interact

Three vicious circles structure your profile: (1) The stress-somatic cycle: chronic stress/overload (60%) sustains the physical symptoms (60%), which in turn feed health anxiety (60%), which reinforces bodily hypervigilance and 'feeds back' into the stress. This cycle self-perpetuates. (2) The social-anxious cycle: social anxiety (60%) reduces your interactions and your social support, so you gradually isolate yourself, which intensifies anticipatory anxiety. Fatigue from chronic stress limits the cognitive resources you have to manage interactions, which reinforces avoidance or suffering in the presence of others. (3) The cumulative-load effect: chronic stress is not just one 'stressor among others', it is the soil. Each anxious dimension (social, health) plays out against a backdrop of fatigue and exhaustion, which drastically lowers your tolerance threshold and creates the marked functional impact (sleep affected → concentration compromised → relationships strained → more stress). A note of hope: these vicious circles become virtuous ones as soon as an intervention targets any one of them. For example, significantly easing chronic stress (the first domino) would directly reduce the physical symptoms, which would calm the health anxiety and free up resources to manage the social anxiety.

Your action plan

Right now

  • This week: carry out an 'overload audit' (list all your weekly tasks, categorise them as essential / desirable / delegable). Identify and remove or delegate at least 3 tasks by Friday. This addresses the root cause (chronic stress) and creates a first tangible relief.
  • Starting tomorrow: set up 5 minutes of heart coherence in the morning and late afternoon (a free app such as Breathwrk is enough). This technique immediately stabilises your nervous system and reduces physical symptoms.
  • This week: see a healthcare professional for a quick medical check-up (including the thyroid if possible) to confirm that your physical symptoms are not due to an organic cause. That medical certainty will disarm a large part of your health anxiety.
  • This weekend: establish a non-negotiable sleep routine (fixed bedtime, no screens after 8pm, 10 minutes of relaxation before bed). Restored sleep frees up enormous resources.

In the coming weeks

  • Weeks 2-4: gradually reduce health checks (online searches, non-urgent consultations) by concentrating them into a limited slot (once a week, 15 minutes). This gradual restriction 'nudges' your nervous system to stop the obsessive monitoring.
  • Weeks 3-8: commit to graded social exposure: each week, take part in a social situation slightly beyond your comfort zone (speaking up in a meeting, attending a social event, contacting a colleague). After each exposure, note that nothing catastrophic happened.
  • Weeks 4-12: build in regular physical activity (3-4 times a week: brisk walking, swimming, yoga). This releases the accumulated sympathetic activation and recalibrates your stress reactivity.
  • Weeks 2-12: explore therapeutic support (structured CBT or interpersonal therapy): ideally 10-15 sessions to address social anxiety, health anxiety and stress management together. A professional can considerably speed up your progress.

In the long run

  • At 3-6 months: reshape the way your life is organised (professional/family) so that overload stays below 60% of your capacity. Targets: negotiating a work adjustment if possible, clarifying domestic responsibilities, setting up one 'day/evening with no obligations' per week. This goal is the 'pivot': without it, gains in anxiety stay fragile. Steps: week 5 (collaborative assessment with partner/manager), week 8 (concrete proposal), week 12 (implementation and adjustment).
  • At 6 months+: consolidate a calmer relationship with stress through regular mindfulness meditation or yoga (2-3 times a week). Goal: move from reactive management ('I do some breathing when I feel anxious') to structural change (your reactivity threshold is naturally higher). This is reached through 20-30 minutes of regular practice, over at least 6 months.
  • At 6 months+: gradually rebuild your social life and relational confidence: join a group (a class, an association, a professional network) where you see the same people regularly. The repeated context gradually reduces social anxiety. Celebrate each small, authentic connection. This goal consolidates the exposure work and turns social anxiety into a sense of social safety.

Avenues to explore

These are hypotheses, not conclusions. You are the one who knows whether they resonate.

It may be that your anxiety is especially tied to social situations and to concerns about your health. These two areas seem to create notable tension, while generalised worry stays more moderate. One possible explanation is that some people develop heightened vigilance toward others' judgement (social anxiety) and, at the same time, a hypervigilance toward bodily signals (health anxiety), creating an exhausting 'double watch'.

Check for yourself: For one week, note the moments when you feel most anxious: are they more often tied to upcoming social interactions (a meeting, a call, a presentation) or to physical concerns (pains, symptoms, medical appointments)? This will confirm whether these two areas really are your main hubs of anxiety.

One possibility is that your body strongly expresses anxiety through physical manifestations (marked symptoms: 60%), even without intense panic reported. In some people, this profile comes with a tendency to interpret these bodily sensations as signs of danger — creating a loop between physical symptoms and health anxiety. Is this your case?

Check for yourself: Notice whether, after a stressful period or during mild symptoms (muscle tension, a racing heart), you ask yourself 'what if it's something serious?'. Document over 3-4 days: symptom felt → thought of threat → check (medical search, taking your blood pressure) → temporary relief. The repetition of this cycle would confirm this dynamic.

It may be that a marked overload (chronic stress 60%) is a central element feeding your anxiety in the social and bodily domains. Some people, overwhelmed by multiple demands or a lack of recovery, develop heightened sensitivity to social criticism and a physical fatigue interpreted as threatening.

Check for yourself: Make an honest inventory of your current sources of overload: work, family responsibilities, insufficient sleep, lack of rest. Then ask yourself: 'If I reduced this overload by at least 20%, would my social vigilance and my physical concerns ease?' Identify one concrete possible change (cutting a task, sleeping 30 minutes more) and observe the impact over 2-3 weeks.

One possible explanation is that your anxiety creates a notable functional impact (60%) not through intense attacks, but through a series of micro-avoidances and everyday adjustments. You adapt your life without necessarily naming it 'avoidance' — for example, choosing the less social routes, putting off certain medical appointments, limiting commitments — which reinforces the anxiety in the long run.

Check for yourself: List the activities you used to do regularly a year ago and now do less often. For each one, ask yourself: 'Did I really stop, or did I gradually change how I do it to reduce the discomfort (alone instead of in a group, less often, shorter)?' Gradual adjustments are often invisible but cumulative.

16 clinical reading frameworks are applied to your profile below — the exact number announced for this test.

Reading frameworks

Recognised clinical frameworks applied to your profile, as additional perspectives to weigh.

Nervous system stateSympathetic dominant with possible dorsal access

The profile shows persistent sympathetic activation (social anxiety, anticipation, physical symptoms marked at 60%) coupled with functional overload. The marked physical symptoms and impact suggest the nervous system remains in a state of mobilisation. The mild avoidance and mild rumination could indicate moments of dissociative freezing in the face of the anxious load.

Cognitive patternCatastrophising

The marked health anxiety (60%) and the negative anticipations (40%) suggest a tendency to amplify the potential consequences of physical symptoms. This avenue would be worth exploring: does the person jump quickly from physical discomfort to serious scenarios?

Cognitive patternMind reading

The marked social anxiety (60%) may come with interpreting others' reactions as negative or judgemental. This distortion could sustain social avoidance and amplify the sense of threat in interaction.

Cognitive patternNegative prediction

The mild rumination and anticipation (40%) combined with the marked overload (60%) point to a pre-emptive expectation of difficult situations. Does the person regularly anticipate failure or discomfort?

Early schemaVulnerability to illness & catastrophe

The marked health anxiety (60%) and marked physical symptoms (60%) evoke an early conviction of being fragile or exposed to imminent threats. This schema could explain the heightened vigilance toward the body and the amplified interpretation of sensations.

Early schemaSocial defectiveness

The marked social anxiety (60%) combined with the marked functional impact (60%) suggests an underlying belief in inadequacy in social situations. This avenue is worth exploring: does the person see themselves as ill-suited or out of step in a group?

Cognitive distortions — Sources: Beck (1976) ; Burns (1980)

Young's schemas — Sources: Young, Klosko & Weishaar (2003) ; Young (1990)

Polyvagal theory — Sources: Porges (2011) ; Dana (2018) — proposed/debated theory

Additional clinical frameworks

Recognised models for this domain, applied to your profile as hypotheses to weigh — not a diagnosis.

Anxiety and stress

Cognitive model of anxiety (Beck)

Your profile shows marked social and health anxiety (60% each) coupled with pronounced physical symptoms, which sometimes evokes an overestimation of social or health threats together with an underestimation of your resources to cope with them. It may be that certain social situations or bodily signals are perceived as more dangerous than they really are, fuelling the vigilance. Recognising this gap between the real danger and the perceived danger could be a first avenue of self-understanding.

Sources: Beck, Emery & Greenberg (1985) ; Clark & Wells (1995)

Transactional model of stress (Lazarus)

Your marked overload (60%) and your high functional impact (60%) suggest a perceived gap between the demands you face and the resources you have to meet them. This profile sometimes evokes a situation where demands (social, professional, health-related) are experienced as exceeding your current capacities. Looking more precisely at which demands weigh most and which resources could be mobilised (support, skills, time) could clarify this tension.

Sources: Lazarus & Folkman (1984)

Intolerance of uncertainty

The marked health anxiety (60%) combined with mild rumination (40%) suggests a possible difficulty tolerating uncertainty about bodily signals or health scenarios. It may be that you try to reduce doubt by anticipating or seeking certainties that remain out of reach. This intolerance of the unexpected can sustain a tiring vigilance; exploring your relationship with doubt and with accepting uncertainty could be illuminating.

Sources: Dugas, Gagnon, Ladouceur & Freeston (1998)

Experiential avoidance

Although behavioural avoidance is mild (40%), your marked physical symptoms (60%) and your high functional impact (60%) suggest a possible inner struggle against bodily discomfort or anxious thoughts. It may be that you try to control or avoid certain sensations or situations, which paradoxically can reinforce their intrusion. Noticing whether you gradually withdraw from certain contexts to escape anxiety could reveal a pattern of experiential avoidance worth addressing.

Sources: Hayes, Wilson, Gifford, Follette & Strosahl (1996)

Cross-cutting frameworks

Emotion regulation

Your profile evokes a difficulty modulating anxious emotions, particularly in the social and somatic domains. It may be that you rely more on suppression (controlling or avoiding distressing thoughts) than on cognitive reappraisal, which paradoxically amplifies the physical tension and the anticipation. Have you noticed whether ignoring or pushing anxiety away ends up making it more present?

Sources: Gross (1998) ; Gross (2015)

Cognitive distortions

The marked health and social anxiety (60% each) suggests a tendency toward catastrophic anticipation and mind reading: imagining the worst-case scenario or assuming others are judging you. These automatic thinking biases amplify the suffering well beyond the real threat. Do you recognise yourself in this habit of jumping to negative conclusions before the situation has even unfolded?

Sources: Beck (1976) ; Burns (1980)

Ellis's ABC model

According to the ABC model, it is not the social situations or physical sensations themselves that create the anxiety, but your beliefs about them. The link between marked chronic stress (60%) and functional impact (60%) suggests that your interpretations of events (Activating events) reinforce an underlying conviction of danger or incapacity. Identifying and questioning these implicit beliefs could loosen the grip.

Sources: Ellis (1962) ; Ellis & Harper (1975)

Sense of self-efficacy

The marked functional impact and the chronic overload possibly point to a reduced sense of self-efficacy: the conviction that you cannot master the anxiety or face the dreaded situations. This creates a cycle where you avoid (mildly, 40%), which confirms the impression of incapacity. Do you feel that anxiety controls you rather than the other way around?

Sources: Bandura (1997) ; Bandura (1977)

Mindfulness

Your marked physical symptoms (60%) and mild anticipation (40%) suggest a tendency to fuse with anxious bodily sensations rather than observing them with kind distance. Mindfulness could allow you to welcome the symptoms without reacting to them immediately, which would reduce the emotional amplification. Have you ever tried gently observing these sensations without trying to fight them?

Sources: Kabat-Zinn (1990) ; Segal, Williams & Teasdale (2002)

Young's early maladaptive schemas

The marked social and health anxiety, combined with chronic overload, sometimes evokes early schemas of abandonment or defectiveness: a lasting fear that you are not acceptable or that the world is an unpredictable threat. These schemas, forged in childhood, still structure your vigilance toward judgement and illness. Do you recognise in yourself an inner conviction that something is wrong with you?

Sources: Young, Klosko & Weishaar (2003) ; Young (1990)

These frameworks do not constitute a medical diagnosis.

Resources & exercise

7-day observation journal

Each day, spot one situation where “Social anxiety” showed up. Note the automatic thought, the emotion (0–100) and what you did. Then write one more balanced, alternative reading. After 7 days, re-read your notes: the recurring patterns become visible — the first step to change them.

Support resources

If you are struggling, you are not alone. United States: call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, 24/7). Elsewhere: find your local line at findahelpline.com. This report supports self-knowledge and does not replace a consultation with a psychologist or doctor.

Your answers in detail

1. I worry about many things, even minor ones.

Answer : Rarely

You answered "Rarely". Can you tell me a little more about the moments when this comes up?

It mainly comes out in situations that matter to me, when I feel under pressure or emotionally involved.

2. Once I get started, I find it hard to stop worrying.

Answer : Rarely

And how long have you been noticing this?

It's been more present for a few months, even though I recognise it from before as well.

3. I often anticipate the worst in situations.

Answer : Rarely

4. I worry about unlikely events.

Answer : Rarely

5. My worry feels out of proportion to the facts.

Answer : Rarely

6. I spend a lot of time imagining what could go wrong.

Answer : Rarely

7. …

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