Phobia test: free 2-minute severity quiz
Quiz
Curious whether you have a phobia, or how much it affects your life? This questionnaire scores how much your fear is getting in the way.
A phobia is more than a dislike of something. A phobia negatively impacts your life, prevents you from doing things you want to do, and can cause significant distress.
This questionnaire is not a medical diagnosis. Bia cannot and does not provide medical diagnoses or advice. Only a mental health professional can do that.
About this quiz
Not sure what phobia you have, or how much it is affecting you? This 2-minute test uses a clinically validated severity scale to score how much your phobia affects your daily life. You will see a 0-5 rating and what each band means. Bia uses this score to personalize your recovery program.
The score comes from the Severity Measure for Specific Phobia (SMSP-A), a 10-question scale published by the American Psychiatric Association alongside the DSM-5.
About the scoreWhat your phobia score means
Your score on the Severity Measure for Specific Phobia (0 to 5)
- 0 – 1Minimal: your phobia rarely affects daily decisions or quality of life.
- 2Mild: noticeable in specific situations but not yet shaping major decisions.
- 3Moderate: actively limiting choices around work, travel, eating, social life, or sleep. Most Bia users start here.
- 4Significant: meaningfully disabling. Structured daily exposure work is the evidence-based path forward.
- 5Severe: dominating daily decisions. At this level, we recommend working with a therapist alongside Bia.
What phobia do I have?
Most phobias are named after what they are a fear of. These are the fears Bia has a program for:
- Fear of vomiting or of others being sick: emetophobia
- Fear of flying: aerophobia
- Fear of driving: driving phobia
- Fear of germs or contamination: contamination OCD
- Fear of being judged or embarrassed: social anxiety
- Fear of places where escape feels hard: agoraphobia
- Fear of panic attacks themselves: panic disorder
Afraid of something else? The quiz above works for any fear.
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Common questions about phobia
Is this phobia test accurate?
It uses a published clinical scale, so your score is a reliable measure of how much your fear is affecting you right now. It is not a diagnosis. Only a mental health professional can diagnose a phobia.
What are the most common phobias?
Fear of animals such as spiders or dogs, heights, flying, needles and blood, and vomiting are among the most common specific phobias. Social anxiety and agoraphobia are also common.
How is this different from everyday worry?
Everyone feels fear and worry. It becomes a problem when it is out of proportion to the situation and starts making decisions for you: where you go, what you eat, what you avoid. That is where structured practice helps.
Will this work for me?
Bia's exercises are built on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), exposure and response prevention (ERP) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). These approaches have strong research support for phobias, OCD and anxiety.
Will it work for my specific case?
It is very common to feel that your fear is special and treatment wont work. You will find that anxiety is less about the specific fear and more about the choices we make in response to this fear. This puts us in control of our recovery and also means we can use the same skills and techniques regardless of what specific thing we are afraid of. That said, Bia uses specially built lessons and exercises for each condition to help you build skills specific to your needs.
What if I'm dealing with more than one thing?
Bia lets you switch your condition at anytime. We recommend you choose the condition that is most impactful to your quality of life and address that one first. This will help you build skills that will generalize to all areas of life.