Barends psychology

PTSD CHECKLIST

PTSD Checklist

• 1. Have you experienced or witnessed a life-threatening event that caused intense fear, helplessness or horror?

• Yes

• No

• 2. Do you re-experience the event in at least one of the following ways?

• Repeated, distressing memories, thoughts, fantasies and/or dreams?

• Acting or feeling as if the event were happening again (flashbacks or a sense of reliving it)?

• Intense physical and/or emotional distress when you are exposed to things that remind you of the event?

• 3. Do you avoid reminders of the event and feel numb, compared to the way you felt before, in 3 or more of the following ways?

• Avoiding thoughts, feelings, or conversations about it?

• Avoiding activities, places, or people who remind you of it?

• Blanking on important parts of it?

• Losing interest in significant activities of you life?

• Feeling detached from other people?

• Feeling your range of emotions is restricted?

• Sensing that your future has shrunk (for example, you don\'t expect to have a career, marriage, children, or a normal life span)?

• 4. Are you troubled by two or more of the following:

• Problems sleeping?

• Irritability or outbursts of anger?

• Problems concentrating?

• Feeling "on guard"?

• An exaggerated startle response?