Trauma Self-Assessment
If you're wondering whether a difficult experience is still affecting you – this helps you understand what you're carrying.
What this assessment explores
If you've been through something traumatic and find yourself wondering why it's still affecting you, this assessment is a place to start making sense of that. It looks at how a traumatic experience may still be showing up in your life, and helps you understand what you're carrying a little more clearly. It's built on the ITQ, an internationally recognised trauma measure.
See the original scaleWhat you can expect
There are 18 questions, and they'll ask you to reflect on how you've been feeling since a traumatic experience. Some might feel very familiar. Others might help you name something you've been carrying without quite having the words for.
The questions touch on things like:
- Intrusive memories, flashbacks, or distressing dreams
- Avoiding people, places, or feelings connected to what happened
- Feeling on edge, hypervigilant, or easily startled
- Finding it hard to manage overwhelming emotions
- How you've come to see yourself
- How the experience may have affected your relationships
Your responses will help you understand whether what you're experiencing aligns with more complex patterns that can develop after prolonged difficulty – giving you language for something that can be hard to name.
Why this is free and private
Insightable Mind is built by clinical and research psychologists to help people better understand themselves, while contributing to meaningful psychological research. These assessments are offered free as part of that work. Your responses are private – when data is used for research, it's fully anonymised and combined with others to help improve the assessments and answer important questions about human psychology.
Top tips
Our best advice to help you get the most out of your self-assessment:
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