Hope doesn’t feel dangerous to everyone.
For some people, possibility feels exciting. Good news can simply be good news. They can want something, move toward it and allow themselves to believe it might actually happen.
For others, something changes when hope becomes real.
The Hope Anxiety Scale (HAS-10) is a 10-item self-reflection assessment designed to measure how often anxiety is activated in response to hope and positive anticipation.
It doesn’t assume you have Hope Anxiety™. It helps you notice whether hope currently feels accessible, cautiously held or consistently unsafe within your nervous system.
Most anxiety assessments are designed to identify distress connected to threat, danger or negative outcomes.
But Hope Anxiety is different.
“What if something bad happens?”
“What if something good happens… and then I lose it?”
Repeated disappointment can change the way you experience possibility.
Good things can begin to feel unsafe. Opportunities can activate anxiety. Progress can be difficult to trust. You can find yourself bracing even when nothing is wrong.
The assessment gives you language and structure for recognizing patterns such as:
This isn’t about getting a “good” or “bad” score.
A lower score doesn’t mean you’re in denial.
A higher score doesn’t mean you’ve failed.
The purpose is awareness, not diagnosis.
Your experience with hope doesn’t exist in a vacuum. That’s why the HAS-10 gives you a choice in how your results are interpreted.
Explore your results through the emotional and nervous system patterns associated with hope and positive outcomes.
Explore those same emotional and nervous system patterns with additional spiritual reflection and scripture-aligned insights.
You choose the interpretation that fits you. Your score remains the same. Only the lens through which your results are explored changes.
The HAS-10 isn’t about labeling you. It’s about giving you a clearer starting point for understanding how you experience hope.