{"id":6654,"date":"2026-09-30T08:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T08:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/?p=6654"},"modified":"2026-09-30T19:36:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T19:36:58","slug":"not-feeling-good-in-yourself-what-can-lie-behind-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/en\/not-feeling-good-in-yourself-what-can-lie-behind-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Not feeling good in yourself: what can lie behind it, and what five questions from the WHO measure about it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<article class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<link rel=\"preconnect\" href=\"https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\">\n<link rel=\"preconnect\" href=\"https:\/\/fonts.gstatic.com\" crossorigin>\n<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css2?family=Poppins:wght@300;400;500;600;700&#038;display=swap\">\n<style id=\"bp-blog-design\">\n.bp-blog {\n  --bp-ink: #212527; --bp-teal: #005859; --bp-teal-deep: #006B62; --bp-emerald: #228A62;\n  --bp-green: #7CA74D; --bp-lime: #B7CB33; --bp-lime-soft: #B7CB3329; --bp-green-aa: #4F6B28;\n  --bp-beige: #EDEAE5; --bp-sand: #DBD4CB; --bp-pale-teal: #D9E6E6; --bp-white: #FFFFFF;\n  --bp-foot: #6b6b6b;\n  --bp-font: 'Poppins','Segoe UI',Arial,sans-serif;\n  --bp-fs-h1: 40px; --bp-fs-h2: 29px; --bp-fs-h3: 21px; --bp-fs-body: 17px;\n  --bp-fs-lead: 19px; --bp-fs-small: 14px; --bp-fs-foot: 13px; --bp-fs-btn: 17px;\n  --bp-lh-body: 1.75;\n  --bp-s-2: 8px; --bp-s-3: 12px; --bp-s-4: 16px; --bp-s-5: 24px; --bp-s-6: 32px;\n  --bp-s-7: 44px; --bp-s-8: 72px;\n  --bp-measure: 875px; --bp-prose: 875px; --bp-side: 40px; --bp-portrait: 132px;\n  --bp-radius-card: 20px; --bp-radius-btn: 10px; --bp-radius-chip: 999px;\n  --bp-shadow: 0 10px 30px rgba(0,88,89,0.10); --bp-shadow-soft: 0 2px 10px rgba(0,88,89,0.06);\n  font-family: var(--bp-font); font-size: var(--bp-fs-body); line-height: var(--bp-lh-body);\n  color: var(--bp-ink); background: var(--bp-white); -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;\n}\n.bp-blog, .bp-blog * { box-sizing: border-box; }\n.bp-blog p, .bp-blog li, .bp-blog h1, .bp-blog h2, .bp-blog h3, .bp-blog a, .bp-blog td,\n.bp-blog th, .bp-blog cite { overflow-wrap: break-word; min-width: 0; }\n.bp-blog h1, .bp-blog h2, .bp-blog h3 { text-wrap: balance; }\n.bp-blog p, .bp-blog li { text-wrap: pretty; }\n\/* WordPress core's flow layout puts 24px above every child after the first; inside\n   a grid or a flex row that is a misalignment (measured on the scan pages 2026-08-21) *\/\n.bp-blog .bp-blog-author > *, .bp-blog .bp-blog-related > *, .bp-blog .bp-blog-verify > * { margin-block: 0; }\n\n\/* --- sections: one column, the article measure, the section rhythm ------------ *\/\n.bp-blog-sec { position: relative; background: var(--bp-white); margin-block: 0;\n  padding-block: var(--bp-s-7);\n  padding-inline: max(var(--bp-side), calc((100% - var(--bp-measure)) \/ 2)); }\n.bp-blog-sec > *:last-child { margin-block-end: 0; }\n.bp-blog-sec > p, .bp-blog-sec > ul, .bp-blog-sec > ol, .bp-blog-sec > .wp-block-quote,\n.bp-blog-sec > .bp-blog-faq-item, .bp-blog-sec > .bp-blog-takeaways, .bp-blog-sec > .bp-blog-toc,\n.bp-blog-sec > .bp-blog-refs, .bp-blog-sec > .bp-blog-srclead { max-width: var(--bp-prose); }\n.bp-blog-sec--head { padding-block: var(--bp-s-7) 0; }\n.bp-blog-sec--body { padding-block: var(--bp-s-6) var(--bp-s-7); }\n.bp-blog-sec--beige { background: var(--bp-beige); }\n.bp-blog-sec--wash { background: linear-gradient(180deg, #B7CB331A 0%, #B7CB330D 100%), #FFFFFF; }\n.bp-blog-sec--tight { padding-block: var(--bp-s-6); }\n\/* A COLOURED SECTION IS A PANEL, so it carries the panel radius. 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That matters, because a vague feeling becomes easier to place once you know what you can measure. Nothing is really wrong. Your work is going fine, things are calm at home, and still you have not felt good for weeks: flat, tired of things that used to give you energy, quieter than before. Not feeling comfortable in your own skin is the Dutch name for precisely that, and it is one of the few complaints for which a questionnaire exists that the World Health Organization published itself: five questions about the past two weeks. <a href=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/en\/scan-wellbeing-test\/\">The BioProfile wellbeing scan<\/a> measures how much you are affected by those complaints, and gives you an indication of where you stand today in this area, as the first of the 11 health areas that the full scan assesses. This is not a diagnosis. It is insight, to see where you stand today. And to help you make better choices in your food and your lifestyle. What this scan does not do: explain why, or make a diagnosis. Only a doctor can do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-verify bp-blog-verify--top is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/rt-portret-justinas-slikas.webp\" alt=\"Portrait of Justinas \u0160likas\" class=\"wp-image-5796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/rt-portret-justinas-slikas.webp 800w, https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/rt-portret-justinas-slikas-240x300.webp 240w, https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/rt-portret-justinas-slikas-768x960.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bp-blog-verify-name wp-block-paragraph\">Verified by <a href=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/experts\/justinas-slikas\/\">Justinas \u0160likas, PhD<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bp-blog-verify-cred wp-block-paragraph\">PhD in chemistry from the University of Edinburgh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bp-blog-verify-date wp-block-paragraph\">Checked on 28 September 2026<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-takeaways is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In short<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>Not feeling comfortable in your own skin is not a diagnosis. It is a signal, and the five questions from the World Health Organization were made to measure precisely that signal.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n<li>26 per cent of people in the Netherlands had a mental health condition in the past year; just over ten years earlier that was 17 per cent.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">2<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n<li>A wellbeing scan gives you a score from 0 to 100 with cut-off values from the instrument itself. A low score is a reason for a conversation, never a conclusion.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-toc is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"bp-blog-toclabel wp-block-paragraph\">Contents<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li><a href=\"#hoe-vaak-het-voorkomt\">How common it is<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#wat-er-vaak-achter-zit\">What often lies behind it<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#wat-de-welzijnsscan-meet\">What the wellbeing scan measures<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#wat-de-welzijnsscan-niet-meet\">What the wellbeing scan does not measure<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#wat-je-met-je-score-doet\">What you do with your score<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#veelgestelde-vragen\">Frequently asked questions<\/a><\/li>\n\n<\/ol>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"hoe-vaak-het-voorkomt\">How common it is<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More often than ten years ago. In the third Dutch population study into mental health, 6,194 people between 18 and 75 were interviewed at home. 26 percent had had a mental health condition in the twelve months before; in the same study from 2007 to 2009 that was 17 percent. The rise was strongest among students, among people between 18 and 34 and in the city, and the coronavirus years did not explain it.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feeling low is usually an ordinary reaction to unpleasant events, and it lifts again after a few weeks or months.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">3<\/a><\/sup> The point is that you yourself can hardly see when &#8220;a few weeks&#8221; has become a few months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"wat-er-vaak-achter-zit\">What often lies behind it<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three things have been measured, and all three you can influence yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sleep is the first one. In a meta-analysis of 21 studies that followed people for years, people with insomnia were about twice as likely to become seriously low in mood later as people who slept well.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">4<\/a><\/sup> So poor sleep often runs ahead of the mood, and not behind it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Movement is the second. Fifteen studies with 191,130 adults showed that people who reached half the recommended amount of movement were 18 per cent less likely to have symptoms of low mood than people who did nothing; those who reached the recommended amount, 25 per cent less likely. Above that, moving more added little extra.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">5<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contact is the third. In research, people who are lonely, live in isolation or live alone have a 26 to 32 per cent higher chance of dying early, an effect that is comparable to known risk factors.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">6<\/a><\/sup> And sometimes it is none of the three but a question about your life itself; for that, someone who knows you well, your GP or the practice nurse is the place, Thuisarts says.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">7<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"wat-de-welzijnsscan-meet\">What the wellbeing scan measures<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The wellbeing scan asks the five questions of the WHO-5 Well-Being Index, in the official Dutch translation, about the past two weeks: whether you were cheerful and in good spirits, calm and relaxed, active and energetic, woke up fresh and rested, and whether your days were filled with things that interest you. The raw score of 0 to 25 is converted into a percentage. It is the only instrument in the whole analysis that we use word for word, because it is freely available and because it is exactly that wording that gives the cut-off values their meaning: 50 per cent or lower reads as low wellbeing, 28 per cent or lower as a signal that deserves follow-up.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The questionnaire has been translated into more than thirty languages since 1998, and a review of 213 studies found it valid as a measure of wellbeing and sensitive and specific enough as a screening for low mood.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">1<\/a><\/sup> In 9,542 Danes it also turned out to be better than the well known mental health scale of the SF-36 at noticing who had gone downhill over a year, because it measures wellbeing and not only the absence of symptoms.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">8<\/a><\/sup> If you come out at 50 per cent or lower, four short follow-up questions about mood and worrying follow, so we know whether we should point you towards support, never to give you a label.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"wat-de-welzijnsscan-niet-meet\">What the wellbeing scan does not measure<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A wellbeing score does not make a diagnosis, and two low weeks are not a condition. The scan cannot explain why those two weeks were low, and it does not replace a person. What it is good at is noticing, and that is exactly what a screening is for: a reason for a conversation, never a conclusion. If it does not pass after a few months, your GP is the next step. If you have had thoughts of harming yourself, get in touch now: call 113.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">3<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"wat-je-met-je-score-doet\">What you do with your score<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A score today is your starting value. Repeat the scan in two weeks, on the same five questions, and you have two numbers instead of a feeling. If you want to change something in those two weeks, take the list from Thuisarts: get up on time and go to bed on time, go outside every day, half an hour of movement a day, and talk about your problems.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">3<\/a><\/sup> The fourth question of the scan is about waking up rested; what a sleep test measures about that is in <a href=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/en\/why-you-wake-up-tired\/\">why you wake up tired<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-sec bp-blog-cta is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Measure where you start<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Five questions about the past two weeks, about three minutes, and your wellbeing score is in your dashboard. What the wellbeing scan measures and what it is based on is on the scan page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/en\/scan-wellbeing-test\/\">Start the wellbeing scan<\/a><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bp-blog-ctamicro wp-block-paragraph\">Free, about 3 minutes. An analysis of your answers, never a diagnosis. <a href=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/en\/free-health-check-tests\/\">All health scans<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-sec bp-blog-sec--wash is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"veelgestelde-vragen\">Frequently asked questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-faq-item is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What are the symptoms of not feeling comfortable in your own skin?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The five questions from the WHO turned around: rarely cheerful, rarely calm, not very active, waking up without feeling rested and days without things that interest you.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">1<\/a><\/sup> Low mood is usually an ordinary reaction to unpleasant events and lifts again after a few weeks or months.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">3<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-faq-item is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What can you do when you do not feel comfortable in your own skin?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Talking with someone who knows you well, with your GP or the practice nurse.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">7<\/a><\/sup> And the things that have been measured: getting up and going to bed on time, going outside every day, half an hour of exercise a day.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">3<\/a><\/sup> Even half of the recommended amount of exercise was linked in research to an 18 percent lower chance of symptoms of low mood.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">5<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-faq-item is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When do I take this to my GP?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If it does not pass after a few months, and straight away if you have thoughts of harming yourself.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">3<\/a><\/sup> A wellbeing score of 28 per cent or lower is a signal that deserves follow-up, and that conversation does not have to wait.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-faq-item is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Is the wellbeing scan a test for low mood?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a screening and not a test that establishes something. In research the five questions are sensitive and specific enough to notice low mood,\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">1<\/a><\/sup> and noticing is exactly what a screening is for. It does not make a diagnosis.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-sec bp-blog-sec--beige bp-blog-sec--tight is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"bronnen\">Sources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bp-blog-srclead wp-block-paragraph\">Every source below was checked on the day this article was published. The numbering follows the text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list bp-blog-refs\">\n\n<li>Topp CW, \u00d8stergaard SD, S\u00f8ndergaard S, Bech P. The WHO-5 Well-Being Index: a systematic review of the literature. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 2015. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1159\/000376585\">doi.org\/10.1159\/000376585<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li>ten Have M, Tuithof M, van Dorsselaer S, et al. Prevalence and trends of common mental disorders from 2007-2009 to 2019-2022: results from the Netherlands Mental Health Survey and Incidence Studies (NEMESIS). World Psychiatry, 2023. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/wps.21087\">doi.org\/10.1002\/wps.21087<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li>Thuisarts.nl (Nederlands Huisartsen Genootschap). Ik voel me somber. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thuisarts.nl\/somberheid\/ik-voel-me-somber\">thuisarts.nl<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li>Baglioni C, Battagliese G, Feige B, et al. Insomnia as a predictor of depression: a meta-analytic evaluation of longitudinal epidemiological studies. Journal of Affective Disorders, 2011. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jad.2011.01.011\">doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jad.2011.01.011<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pearce M, Garcia L, Abbas A, et al. Association between physical activity and risk of depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA Psychiatry, 2022. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamapsychiatry.2022.0609\">doi.org\/10.1001\/jamapsychiatry.2022.0609<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li>Holt-Lunstad J, Smith TB, Baker M, Harris T, Stephenson D. Loneliness and social isolation as risk factors for mortality: a meta-analytic review. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2015. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/1745691614568352\">doi.org\/10.1177\/1745691614568352<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li>Thuisarts.nl (Nederlands Huisartsen Genootschap). I do not feel comfortable in my own skin and I am thinking about what gives my life meaning. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thuisarts.nl\/nadenken-over-je-leven\/ik-zit-niet-lekker-in-mijn-vel-en-denk-na-over-wat-mijn-leven-zin-geeft\">thuisarts.nl<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li>Bech P, Olsen LR, Kjoller M, Rasmussen NK. Measuring well-being rather than the absence of distress symptoms: a comparison of the SF-36 Mental Health subscale and the WHO-Five Well-Being Scale. 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