If a frog is suddenly put into a pot of boiling water, it will jump out and save itself from impending death. But, if the frog is put in lukewarm water, with the temperature rising slowly, it will not perceive any danger to itself and will be cooked to death.

You probably would have already heard of this boiling frog story.

But do you know that a person experiencing rising levels of stress has the same effect as the rising temperature of the water on the frog?

Sometimes, you may not know that you are too stressed out until health symptoms start to appear. Some effects of chronic stress are heart attacks or strokes.

To prevent things from going too far, take this quiz to find out how stressed you really are.

The quiz is based on the Perceived Stress Scale, which is the most widely used psychological instrument for measuring the perception of stress. It measures the degree to which one perceives the situations in their life to be stressful.

This is a short quiz with only 10 questions and takes only 5 minutes to complete.

Don’t be a boiled frog! :)