Anxiety Self-Assessment for Scam Victims
Mental Health Assessment · Adapted from GAD-7 Clinical Framework
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The SCARS Institute provides this tool to help you notice patterns consistent with anxiety following a scam experience, and to decide whether extra support would help. You can save it to share the results with your therapist or mental health professional.
About This Assessment
This assessment is adapted from the GAD-7 clinical framework — one of the most widely validated anxiety screening tools in clinical practice — and extended with trauma-specific items that are particularly relevant to scam victims, including hypervigilance, trust disruption, and panic-level responses.
Reflect on the past two weeks as you answer each question. A pattern across sections matters more than any single score. This assessment covers seven areas: core anxiety symptoms, physiological arousal, cognitive impact, emotional and behavioural effects, trauma-specific amplifiers, sleep and regulation disruption, and panic-level indicators.
Please Note. This assessment is adapted from the GAD-7 clinical framework for educational purposes. It does not diagnose anxiety disorders — clinical diagnosis requires professional evaluation that may also consider medical causes such as thyroid or cardiac conditions. We strongly recommend sharing these results with a mental health professional.
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