Eight questions, about ninety seconds. No account, no email, and your answers never leave your browser. We built this because every version we could find online asked for an address before showing a result.
This is a reflection tool. It is not a diagnosis, it is not a validated clinical instrument, and it does not replace a conversation with a professional. What it does is give you a language for something you have probably been carrying without naming.
The questions are adapted from the domains that validated instruments such as the Zarit Burden Interview and the Caregiver Strain Index examine: time, sleep, isolation, self-neglect, irritability and the sense of being alone with the knowledge.
The point is not the score. The point is that somebody asked.
Not everything. One thing that repeats every week. The relief is disproportionate to the size of the task, because it breaks the sense of being the only one.
The postponed check-up is the most reliable early sign in the literature, and the easiest one to fix this week.
The helplines in our resources directory are free, staffed by people who do this all day, and do not require you to be in crisis.
Short answers, and the limits of what a self assessment can tell you.
Burnout rarely announces itself. The usual signs are sleep that no longer restores you, irritation that surprises you, dropping your own medical appointments, and a slow retreat from people outside the situation. A structured assessment helps because it asks about all of those at once, instead of the one you happen to be thinking about today.
Mental load is the planning, remembering and anticipating that never appears on a task list. We measure it as one of four domains in the Cognitive Load Index, alongside practical demand, emotional strain and social isolation. This assessment is a short, self reported version of the same structure.
It runs entirely in your browser. Nothing is sent to us, there is no email field, and closing the tab erases it. That is a deliberate design choice, not a limitation we plan to remove.
Not yet, and we will not claim otherwise. The Cognitive Load Index is in production and measures load continuously. Four week burnout prediction is in clinical validation and is not available to families or organizations today.
Two things, in this order. Tell one other person in the family a specific thing you need, this week. Then look at the official caregiver agency for your state or department, because most caregivers qualify for respite or support they never claimed. Our resources page lists every one of them.
The Cognitive Load Index tracks this continuously, against your own baseline rather than a questionnaire average.
In crisis: call or text 988 in the US, 3114 in France.