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Self-check · stimulant patterns · answer for the past 12 months

Ten questions. Two minutes. Nobody watching.

Written for how stimulant use actually behaves — binges, paydays, redosing, the crash — and scored against the criteria clinicians use for stimulant use disorder (DSM-5). It is an educational screen, not a diagnosis. It runs entirely on this page — your answers are never stored or sent.

Before anything else: if right now you have chest pain or pressure, a racing irregular heartbeat, or paranoia, voices, or hallucinations that won't ease — close this and call 911 or go to the nearest ER. The check can wait. Your heart and your mind can't.

And if the crash has you thinking about harming yourself, call or text 988 now — the crash lies, and it passes.

  1. 1.Are your runs getting longer — a night that used to end at 2 a.m. now becoming a whole weekend?

    Binge length growing is tolerance doing arithmetic.

  2. 2.Do you now mostly use alone, where it used to be a social thing?

    The shift from party to private is a pattern marker, not a detail.

  3. 3.Does money arriving — payday, a refund, an e-transfer — reliably start a countdown to using?

    If the calendar can predict it, it's a cycle.

  4. 4.Do you set a stopping point before you start, and then redose past it almost every time?

    The plan failing is the drug steering. Answer on the record, not the intention.

  5. 5.Do you keep going partly because you dread the crash waiting on the other side?

    Using to postpone the comedown is the loop feeding itself.

  6. 6.In the past three months, has a run kept you awake for 24 hours or more?

    Sleep destruction is where the risk to your mind concentrates.

  7. 7.Has money meant for rent, bills, or family gone to using instead?

    Not 'are you broke' — just whether the money went somewhere you didn't choose in daylight.

  8. 8.Do you tell yourself it helps your work, energy, or social life — while, honestly, those are getting thinner?

    Check the record, not the story.

  9. 9.Have you had moments of paranoia during or after using — checking windows, feeling watched, hearing things?

    Even brief moments count. Be honest here; it matters medically.

  10. 10.Have you promised yourself or someone else you'd stop or cut back, and not been able to?

    The Thursday promise. Count how many times it's been made.

This screen is educational, not a diagnosis — only a clinician can diagnose a stimulant use disorder. Nothing you answered was stored or sent; it all stays on this page.

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