• Post-Traumatic Stress Quiz
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Post-Traumatic Stress Quiz: is used to screen for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). PTSD is a psychiatric condition that a person may develop after living through or seeing a dangerous event (such as war, a hurricane, or bad accident). PTSD makes you feel stressed and afraid after the danger is over. It can affect individual's academic performance, work and relationships. To determine whether you have PTSD, take this quiz.

Instructions: Please answer the following questions regarding your experience. Then, click on the submit button below the questionnaire to see your score. Please note that this assessment is not a substitute for an in-person evaluation with a clinician and the results may not be accurate.

Have you experienced or witnessed a traumatic event and experienced the following:

  1. Felt intense fear, helplessness or horror.
    Yes No

  2. Repetitive and intrusive distressing memories of the event.
    Yes No

  3. Repetitive bad dreams of the event.
    Yes No

  4. Flashbacks or feeling as if the event were recurring.
    Yes No

  5. Intense distress at exposure to cues that remind you of the traumatic event.
    Yes No

  6. Have a physiological reaction on exposure to cues that remind you of the traumatic event (i.e., heart racing, pounding heart, sweating, shaking).
    Yes No

  7. Not wanting to think or discuss the trauma.
    Yes No

  8. Avoiding places, activities or people that remind you of the trauma.
    Yes No

  9. Forgetting important parts of the traumatic event.
    Yes No

  10. Loss of interest in engaging in activities that you enjoy.
    Yes No

  11. Feeling alone.
    Yes No

  12. Not being able to feel a range of emotions.
    Yes No

  13. Having a belief that your future is shortened (i.e., not expect to get married or have children).
    Yes No

  14. Difficulty falling or staying asleep.
    Yes No

  15. Irritable or have outbursts of anger.
    Yes No

  16. Difficulty concentrating.
    Yes No

  17. Extremely sensitive to your environment.
    Yes No

  18. Experiencing an exaggerated startle response.
    Yes No