Columbia Depression Scale – Self Report

INSTRUCTIONS: Completed by the teen, ages 11 and over.
Consider your present state (last 4 weeks) and please answer the following questions as honestly as possible.
In the last four weeks ….

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1.Have you often felt sad or depressed? *
2.Have you felt like nothing is fun for you and you just aren’t interested in anything? *
3.Have you often felt grouchy or irritable and often in a bad mood, when even little things would make you mad? *
4.Have you lost weight, more than just a few pounds? *
5.Have you lost your appetite or often felt less like eating? *
6.Have you gained a lot of weight, more than just a few pounds? *
7.Have you felt much hungrier than usual or eaten a lot more than usual? *
8.Have you had trouble sleeping – that is, trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, or waking up too early? *
9.Have you slept more during the day that you usually do? *
10.Have you often felt slowed down … like you walked or talked much slower than you usually do? *
11.Have you often felt restless … like you just have to keep walking around? *
12.Have you had less energy than you usually do? *
13.Has doing even little things made you feel really tired? *
14.Have you often blamed yourself for bad things that happened? *
15.Have you felt you couldn’t do anything well or that you weren’t as good looking or as smart as other people? *
16.Has it seemed like you couldn’t think as clearly or as fast as usual? *
17.Have you often had trouble keeping your mind on your (schoolwork/work) or other things? *
18.Has it often been hard for you to make up your mind or to make decisions? *
19.Have you often thought about death or about people who had died or about being dead yourself? *
20.Have you though seriously about killing yourself? *
21.Have you EVER, in your WHOLE LIFE, tried to kill yourself or made a suicide attempt? *
22.Have you tried to kill yourself in the last four weeks? *