Complex PTSD Symptoms Assessment

_____ Stress – 83% of U.S. workers suffer from stress, 23% higher than global statistics, causing 120,000 deaths yearly. – 87% don’t like their jobs but feel trapped.

_____ Tension – a reaction to stress, results in chronic pain, headaches, and is associated with the rise in heart disease.

_____ Depression – $51 billion in costs due to absenteeism and $26 billion in treatment costs.

_____ Anxiety – disorders such as OCD, GAD, PTSD, and SAD effect 40 million Americans yearly.

_____ Insomnia – 50% of adults have occasional insomnia.  Loss of productivity costs $63 billion a year.

_____ Eating Disorders  – 30 million Americans suffer with bulimia or anorexia, and obesity has tripled since 1975.

_____ Loneliness  – Harvard calls loneliness an epidemic worthy of public intervention, decreases immune function.

_____ Emotional Detachment  – numbing, unable to fully engage with feelings, apathetic rather than empathetic.

_____ Irritability  – 50% of depressed people have “anger attacks” similar to “panic attacks”.

_____ Negativity  – 98% report negativity or rudeness at work, 78% experience decline of commitment.

_____ Hostility  – political polarization is linked to higher rates of anxiety, depression, poorer health, higher mortality.

_____ Severe Inner Critic  – associated with depression, the inadequate self and the hated self is related to a 30% rise in self-harm and suicide since 2000.

_____ Avoidance  – passive-aggressiveness, silent treatment, denial, and all substance abuse at an all time high.

_____ Drugs  – both prescribed and illegal drug use in on the rise for people 12 years of age and up.

Do you have one or more of the symptoms of Complex PTSD listed above?