{ "assessmentTests": { "bipolar_disorder_screener": { "subscales": { "elevated_mood": { "name": "Elevated / Expansive Mood" }, "decreased_sleep": { "name": "Decreased Need for Sleep" }, "grandiosity": { "name": "Grandiosity / Inflated Self-Esteem" }, "racing_thoughts": { "name": "Racing Thoughts / Distractibility" }, "impulsivity": { "name": "Impulsivity / Risky Behaviour" }, "energy_activity": { "name": "Energy / Activity Increase" } }, "name": "Mood Swing Check-In", "desc": "A short self-reflection on elevated mood, energy, and impulsivity patterns sometimes associated with hypomania. A self-reflection tool, not a diagnostic tool, screening instrument, or medical device.", "recommendation": "Your mood pattern reflection", "questions": [ { "question": "How often do you experience stretches of feeling unusually upbeat, on top of the world, or dialed up in a way that feels different from your normal good mood?", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Never or Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌓", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost Always" } ] }, { "question": "How often does your mood shift into an unusually confident or invincible-feeling state, seemingly without a clear reason?", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Never or Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌓", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost Always" } ] }, { "question": "How often do people close to you comment that you seem \"wired,\" \"hyper,\" or unusually intense compared to how you normally are?", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Never or Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌓", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost Always" } ] }, { "question": "How often do you go through periods where you feel fully rested and energized after only a few hours of sleep, or barely any sleep at all?", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Never or Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌓", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost Always" } ] }, { "question": "How often do you find yourself not wanting to sleep because you feel too energized or your mind is too active to wind down?", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Never or Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌓", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost Always" } ] }, { "question": "How often does your need for sleep seem to drop sharply for several nights in a row, without it leaving you tired the next day?", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Never or Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌓", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost Always" } ] }, { "question": "How often do you feel like your abilities, ideas, or importance are far greater than usual, more capable, more talented, more special than you'd normally say?", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Never or Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌓", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost Always" } ] }, { "question": "How often do you feel certain you can handle far more responsibility, projects, or ambitions than you realistically have time or resources for?", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Never or Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌓", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost Always" } ] }, { "question": "How often do you find yourself convinced you're right about something important in a way that brushes off other people's doubts or advice?", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Never or Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌓", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost Always" } ] }, { "question": "How often do your thoughts move so quickly that you struggle to keep up with your own train of thinking?", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Never or Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌓", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost Always" } ] }, { "question": "How often do you jump between unrelated ideas or topics faster than you can fully explain them to someone else?", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Never or Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌓", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost Always" } ] }, { "question": "How often do you find it hard to stay focused on one task because your attention keeps darting to something new?", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Never or Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌓", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost Always" } ] }, { "question": "How often does your mind feel crowded, like too many ideas are competing for attention at once?", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Never or Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌓", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost Always" } ] }, { "question": "How often do you make fast decisions, about money, plans, or commitments, that you wouldn't normally make without more thought?", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Never or Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌓", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost Always" } ] }, { "question": "How often do you find yourself spending, shopping, or committing to purchases more than you'd normally consider reasonable?", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Never or Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌓", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost Always" } ] }, { "question": "How often do you take on physical or social risks, driving faster, flirting more boldly, speaking more bluntly, that feel exciting in the moment but out of character?", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Never or Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌓", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost Always" } ] }, { "question": "How often do you start new projects, relationships, or plans on a sudden impulse, without your usual amount of planning?", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Never or Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌓", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost Always" } ] }, { "question": "How often do you feel a surge of physical energy that pushes you to stay unusually busy, active, or productive for long stretches?", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Never or Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌓", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost Always" } ] }, { "question": "How often do you take on far more activities, tasks, or social plans than usual, packing your schedule fuller than normal?", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Never or Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌓", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost Always" } ] }, { "question": "How often do you feel restless or need to keep moving, unable to sit still or relax even when there's no urgent reason to?", "options": [ { "icon": "🌑", "label": "Never or Rarely" }, { "icon": "🌓", "label": "Sometimes" }, { "icon": "🌗", "label": "Often" }, { "icon": "🌕", "label": "Almost Always" } ] } ], "results": { "minimal": { "name": "Steady Skies", "desc": "Your reflections suggest your mood, sleep, and energy have been on an even keel lately. The occasional good mood or busy stretch is normal, what stands out here is the absence of the more dialed-up patterns some people notice in themselves from time to time.", "recommendation": "Keep an eye on your usual rhythm, sleep, energy, and mood, so a real shift is easy to notice early. There's nothing here that suggests a need for professional input right now." }, "mild": { "name": "Passing Winds", "desc": "Your reflections point to a few occasional high-energy or elevated-mood moments, nothing that dominates your recent pattern, but enough to be worth noticing. These experiences are common and don't automatically mean anything is wrong.", "recommendation": "Keep a loose log of sleep, mood, and energy for a couple of weeks. If these moments become more frequent, more intense, or start affecting decisions, sleep, or relationships, a conversation with a doctor or counsellor is a reasonable next step." }, "moderate": { "name": "Shifting Currents", "desc": "Your reflections suggest a noticeable pattern of elevated mood, reduced need for sleep, racing thoughts, or impulsive decisions showing up together. This isn't a diagnosis, hypomania-type patterns have many possible explanations, but it's a signal worth taking seriously.", "recommendation": "Consider talking with a doctor, psychiatrist, or counsellor about what you've noticed, especially if these patterns come in distinct episodes that differ from your usual self. Mentioning sleep changes and impulsive decisions specifically tends to help a clinician assess the full picture." }, "high": { "name": "Full Storm", "desc": "Your reflections point to a strong, sustained pattern across mood, sleep, thinking, and behaviour that lines up with what clinicians describe as a hypomanic or manic episode. This is not a diagnosis, only a licensed professional can make one, but the pattern is significant enough that a timely conversation with a doctor matters.", "recommendation": "Please consider reaching out to a doctor or psychiatrist soon, especially if you've made risky decisions, spent well beyond your means, or gone multiple nights with very little sleep. If you're also experiencing thoughts of self-harm, contact a crisis line right away: 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (US), Samaritans 116 123 (UK/IE), Crisis Text Line (text HOME to 741741), or findahelpline.com for your country." } } } }, "testNames": { "bipolar-disorder-screener": "Mood Swing Check-In" } }