Complex PTSD Trauma Assessment
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.
- Were your caregivers traumatized in their childhoods? Yes/No
- Were your parents incarcerated for periods of time during their childhoods (such as in an Indian residential school or a concentration camp? Yes/No
- Did your caregiver(s) suffer from mental illness? Yes/No
- Did your parents misuse substances? Yes/No
- Did your caregivers deny or discount your feelings or experiences? Yes/No
- Were your caregivers cruel? Yes/No
- Were your caregivers insensitive to your needs? Yes/No
- Did you feel invisible to your parents? Yes/No
- Were you responsible for meeting your parent’s needs or soothing their distress? Yes/No
- Were you abused as a child? Yes/No
- Were you neglected as a child? Did you lack any of the necessities of life? Yes/No
- Did you experience ongoing traumatic events in your childhood? Yes/No
- Did your caregivers protect and comfort you when you had upsetting experiences? Yes/No
- As a child, did you dream of running away but felt powerless to do so? Yes/No
- Did you have fantasies of being rescued from your life? Yes/No
- Did you have other sources of trauma in your childhood such as being bullied at school? Yes/No
- Did you hate yourself? Yes/No
- Did you find it especially difficult to calm down or self soothe? Yes/No
- Did you use food to regulate your emotions? Yes/No
- Did you feel spaced out, like your body was there but you were not in it? Yes/No
- Did you feel chronically vigilant, like you were on guard all the time for the next bad thing that was going to happen? Yes/No