1. I feel anxiety about something or someone almost all the time.
  2. I easily become impatient with people.
  3. Most of the time I wish I were dead.
  4. Sometimes I become so excited that I find it hard to get sleep.
  5. I have certainly had more than my share of things to worry about.
  6. No one cares about what happens to you.
  7. At times I hear so well it bothers me.
  8. I forget right away what people say to me.
  9. I usually have to stop and think before I act even in small matters.
  10. Often I cross the street in order not to meet someone I see.
  11. I often feel as if things are not real.
  12. The only interesting part of newspapers is the comic strips.
  13. I have a habit of counting things that are not important such as bulbs on electric signs, and so forth.
  14. I have no enemies who really wish to harm me.
  15. I tend to be on my guard with people who are somewhat more friendly than I have expected.
  16. I have strange and peculiar thoughts.
  17. I get anxious and upset when I have to make a short trip away from home.
  18. I usually expect to succeed in things I do.
  19. I hear strange things when I am alone.
  20. I have been afraid of things or people that I knew could not hurt me.
  21. I have no dread of going into a room by myself where other people have already gathered and are talking.
  22. I am afraid of using a knife or anything very sharp or pointed.
  23. Sometimes I enjoy hurting persons I love.
  24. I can easily make other people afraid of me.
  25. I have more trouble concentrating than others seem to have.
  26. I have several times given up doing a thing because I thought too little of my ability.
  27. Bad words, often terrible words, come into my mind and I cannot get rid of them.
  28. Sometimes some unimportant thought will run through my mind and bother me for days.
  29. Almost every day something happens to frighten me.
  30. At times I am all full of energy.
  31. I am inclined to take things hard.
  32. At times I have enjoyed being hurt by someone I love.
  33. People say insulting and vulgar things about me.
  34. I feel uneasy indoors.
  35. I am not unusually self-conscious.
  36. Someone has control over my mind.
  37. At parties I am more likely to sit by myself or with just one another person than to join in with the crowd.
  38. People often disappoint me.
  39. I have sometimes felt that difficulties were piling up so high that I could not overcome them.
  40. I love to go to dances.
  41. At periods my mind seems to work more slowly than usual.
  42. While in trains, busses, etc., I often talk to strangers.
  43. I enjoy children.
  44. I enjoy gambling for small stakes.
  45. If given the chance I could do some things that would be of great benefit to the world.
  46. I have often met people who were
    supposed to be experts who were no better than I.
  47. It makes me feel like a failure when I hear of the success of someone I know well.
  48. I often think, “I wish I were a child again.”
  49. I am never happier than when alone.
  50. If given the chance I would make a good leader of people.

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