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Complete the assessment
Answer a few simple questions about what you're experiencing.
Restored Minds Assessment
Take the Free Assessment to Understand Your Specific Fear Loop
It's completely free and takes about 5 minutes — and you'll walk away with a clear picture of your specific fear loop, what's keeping it going, and what you can do to start breaking free.
There are no right or wrong answers. Just answer honestly based on what you're experiencing.
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Free · 12 questions · About 5 minutes · Your answers are private
01 — Your assessment results
Your primary loop
The “Fear of Contamination” Loop
Intensity
Mild
Fear
loop
Trigger
Fear
Thought
Resistance
Compulsion
Brief Relief
Loop Repeats
Trigger
Something sets it off.
Your loop, mapped — the trigger, the thoughts, the behaviors, and the exact point where it keeps closing.
Also in your results
- 02Common Roadblocks You Run Into
- 03The Hidden Things Keeping You Stuck
- 04What's Secretly Running Your Loop
- 05Key Things You Need to Understand
- 06How Your Loop Is Impacting Your Life
- 07Your Step-by-Step Path to Breaking the Loop
A sample of your results — yours is built from your answers.
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Identify your loop
See your specific loop map and understand what's keeping it going.
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Learn how to break free
Understand what you need to do next to start breaking free.
You already know how the inside of your head sounds.
One of these is probably closer than you'd like.
What ifWhat if I lose control and hurt someone? What if I suddenly lose control and hurt myself? What if this is contaminated and I didn't clean it properly? What if being around this person or place has somehow contaminated me? What if having this thought means something about me? What if I'm not actually the sexual orientation I think I am? What if this thought means I'm attracted to children? What if I don't really love my partner? What if this symptom means something is seriously wrong with me? What if this feeling in my body means something is wrong? What if I have another panic attack and can't stop it? What if I completely lose control of myself? What if I can't control what happens to my body? What if I can't sleep tonight and tomorrow is ruined? What if nothing is real? What if something is deeply wrong with me on a level I can't understand? What if something terrible happens because I didn't do enough to prevent it? What if I've done something unforgivable? What if what I did in the past means I'm a terrible person? What if I did something terrible and just don't remember it? What if I forget something important? What if I don't get this exactly right? What if I lose control and hurt my baby? What if I never figure this out? What if something bad happens? What if I can't handle what happens next? What if I lose everything? What if I make the wrong career decision and ruin my future? What if everyone thinks I'm weird? What if I embarrass myself in front of everyone? What if I freeze and make a fool of myself? What if I fall? What if the plane crashes? What if I get trapped and can't get out? What if I'm too far away from somewhere safe? What if it attacks me? What if there's one on me? What if something goes wrong during the procedure? What if I faint or can't handle seeing it? What if I lose control of the car and cause an accident? What if I get sick and throw up? What if I get trapped and can't get out? What if it happens again?
“What if this symptom means something is seriously wrong with me?”
“What if I don't really love my partner?”
“What if I lose control and hurt someone?”
“What if everyone thinks I'm weird?”
“What if I can't handle what happens next?”
Whatever the thought is, it isn't the problem.
It's what the loop is currently using.
See how your loop works — and what to do to break it.
Whatever theme fear has latched onto, it runs the same mechanism. The assessment shows you yours — and where to interrupt it.
Contamination
Harm fears
Health fears
Relationship doubt
Intrusive thoughts
Social fears
Panic
Phobias
The Fear Loop
…and many more
The theme changes. The loop doesn't.
What you get
Not a score. Not a label. A map of the thing that's actually running.
Your Fear Loop, Named
The specific pattern that pulled most of your answers — and how intensely it's running.
Your Loop Map
The six-step machine, on repeat, with your own answers plugged into it.
The Things That Keep Fueling the Loop
The thoughts, feelings, and behaviors quietly feeding it — including the hidden ones.
The Shift That Changes Everything
The one change in how you respond that takes the fuel out of the loop.
Your Step-by-Step Path to Breaking the Loop
What to actually do next, in order, instead of guessing.
The Tool That Helps You Implement All of It
How to put the work into practice in the moments it actually matters.
All of it, free, in about 5 minutes.
Take the assessment to unlock your results
Start Your Free AssessmentA sample results page — yours is built from your answers.
A message from Matt
I'm Matt. I had this.
I was eighteen, first semester of college, when the thoughts started. No warning. My life blew up.
I spent years trying to get out. Therapy, prayer, every tool I could get my hands on. Nothing worked and I kept getting worse.
What finally changed it wasn't a technique. It was realizing that almost everything I was doing to feel better was the thing keeping it alive.
I've spent the fifteen years since building the framework that got me out — and watching people who were told they'd have this forever walk straight out of it.
— Matt
Matt Codde, LCSW · Author of From Stuck to Unstuck · Creator of the Triple-A Response®
This isn't a screener.
There's no score at the end, and nothing that tells you whether you "have" something. You've probably already taken those.
What this is not about
- This isn't about giving you a diagnosis.
- This isn't about catastrophizing your experience.
- This isn't about offering you reassurance to give you relief.
What this is about
- This is about helping you name and identify what you're experiencing.
- This is about showing you what you're doing that's feeding it.
- This is about guiding you with what you need to do to break it and transcend.
Take the Free Assessment to Understand Your Specific Fear Loop
It's completely free and takes about 5 minutes — and you'll walk away with a clear picture of your specific fear loop, what's keeping it going, and what you can do to start breaking free.
There are no right or wrong answers. Just answer honestly based on what you're experiencing.
Free · No account needed · Your answers are private and secure
Restored Minds is educational, self-guided coaching — not therapy, medical care, diagnosis, or crisis intervention, and it does not replace working with a licensed clinician. This assessment is for educational purposes and is not a clinical diagnosis. You must be 18 or older.