Trauma Test
Understand current experiences and their impact
A difficult experience can leave questions about what you are noticing now. This free trauma test is an educational reflection on current reminders, avoidance, alertness, mood and connection. It can help you describe present-day experiences and their impact. It cannot determine what happened, diagnose PTSD or tell you whether an event “counts” as trauma.
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Preview the assessment questions▼
1. An unwanted reminder of a distressing experience pulled my attention away from what I was doing.
- Did not occur
- Occasionally
- Sometimes
- Often
- Very often
- I am unsure
- I prefer not to answer
2. I changed an otherwise manageable plan mainly to avoid a reminder of what happened.
- Did not occur
- Occasionally
- Sometimes
- Often
- Very often
- I am unsure
- I prefer not to answer
3. I kept monitoring my surroundings for danger even when I could identify no immediate threat.
- Did not occur
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- Sometimes
- Often
- Very often
- I am unsure
- I prefer not to answer
4. Since the distressing experience, I found it harder to allow myself ordinary moments of enjoyment.
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- Very often
- I am unsure
- I prefer not to answer
5. A reminder brought feelings that remained difficult to settle after the reminder had passed.
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- Very often
- I am unsure
- I prefer not to answer
6. A dream connected with the distressing experience left me unsettled after waking.
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- I am unsure
- I prefer not to answer
7. Trying to push away reminders took attention that I wanted to use elsewhere.
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- Very often
- I am unsure
- I prefer not to answer
8. After being startled, my body stayed on alert longer than I wanted.
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- Very often
- I am unsure
- I prefer not to answer
9. Thoughts about responsibility for what happened made it harder to view myself fairly.
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- I am unsure
- I prefer not to answer
10. I pulled back from a person I wanted to connect with because feelings related to the experience were difficult to manage.
- Did not occur
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- Very often
- I am unsure
- I prefer not to answer
11. A reminder felt so immediate that it took effort to reorient to what was happening around me now.
- Did not occur
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- Often
- Very often
- I am unsure
- I prefer not to answer
12. Avoiding reminders narrowed an activity or place that I would otherwise have wanted in my life.
- Did not occur
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- Sometimes
- Often
- Very often
- I am unsure
- I prefer not to answer
13. Feeling on guard interfered with settling down to rest.
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- I am unsure
- I prefer not to answer
14. A sense that the world had become less trustworthy affected choices I previously found manageable.
- Did not occur
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- Very often
- I am unsure
- I prefer not to answer
15. At times I felt emotionally shut down when I wanted to be present with someone or something important.
- Did not occur
- Occasionally
- Sometimes
- Often
- Very often
- I am unsure
- I prefer not to answer
16. How much did the experiences you considered interfere with work, study or ordinary daily tasks during the past month?
- No interference
- Small adjustments, but I could do what mattered
- Repeated difficulty doing what mattered
- Major changes or missed important activities
- I was unable to manage an important part of this area
- I am unsure
- I prefer not to answer
17. How much did those experiences interfere with relationships or activities you wanted during the past month?
- No interference
- Small adjustments, but I could do what mattered
- Repeated difficulty doing what mattered
- Major changes or missed important activities
- I was unable to manage an important part of this area
- I am unsure
- I prefer not to answer
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