Complex PTSD Symptoms Quiz
Count how many questions below that you answer with “yes.”
The more “yes” answers the more likely it is that you may be suffering from CPTSD.
- In the present moment, do you have a difficult time regulating your emotions?
Yes/No - Do you feel chronically on guard, as though something bad is just around the corner?
Yes/No - Do you feel spaced out much of the time like you are not present or inhabiting your body?
Yes/No - Do you have a harsh inner critic?
Yes/No - Do you feel sad much of the time?
Yes/No - Are you preoccupied with suicide? Are you inclined to injure yourself?
Yes/No - Do you feel like your anger is either explosive or repressed?
Yes/No - Do you feel like your sexuality is either compulsive or repressed?
Yes/No - Do you have a difficult time remembering certain childhood events or blocks of time?
Yes/No - Do you sometimes feel like your thoughts or feelings are unreal?
Yes/No - Do you sometimes feel like your surroundings are not real?
Yes/No - Do you sometimes feel like you yourself are not real?
Yes/No - Do you relive past experiences or emotions?
Yes/No - Do you feel helpless and/or that you have lost all initiative?
Yes/No - Do you feel a chronic sense of shame, guilt or self-blame?
Yes/No - Do you experience a sense of being defiled or stigmatized?
Yes/No - Do you feel that you are substantially different from other people?
Yes/No - Are you preoccupied with your relationship with a caregiver(s) who neglected or abused you?
Yes/No - Do you sometimes feel that the caregiver(s) who neglected or abused you are all powerful?
Yes/No - Do you feel grateful to the caregiver(s) who neglected or abused you or idealize them?
Yes/No - Are you convinced that you have a special relationship with the person who neglected or abused you?
Yes/No - Do you see things through the eyes of the person/people who abused or neglected you and have you adopted their belief system or rationalizations?
Yes/No - Do you tend to isolate yourself or withdraw from others?
Yes/No - Do you have a difficult time finding or maintaining intimate relationships with others?
Yes/No - Do you have a hope that someone will find and rescue you from your life circumstances?
Yes/No - Do you find yourself consistently mistrustful of others?
Yes/No - Do you have a difficult time protecting yourself from others?
Yes/No - Do you find it difficult to believe in anything in an ongoing way?
Yes/No - Do you feel hopeless or despair much of the time?
Yes/No