Trauma and Dissociation Self-Assessment
Explores traumatic experiences related to dissociation, including memory gaps, feeling detached from yourself or the world, and shifts in identity or awareness.
What this assessment explores
After significant trauma or overwhelming experiences – especially those that happened early in life – the mind can develop ways of protecting itself that become hard to understand or explain. Dissociation can look like memory gaps, feeling detached from yourself or your surroundings, confusion about who you are, or experiences that are difficult to put into words. If any of this feels familiar, this assessment is a place to start making sense of it. It's built on the MID-60-A, a validated screening tool for dissociative symptoms in young people aged 16–19.
See the original scaleWhat you can expect
There are 60 questions – this one takes around 10 minutes, and the depth reflects how complex and varied dissociative experiences can be. It's worth taking your time with it.
The questions touch on things like:
- Memory – gaps in recall for recent events or autobiographical experiences
- Identity – awareness of different self-states, intrusive thoughts, or inner conflict
- Depersonalisation and derealisation – feeling detached from yourself or like the world isn't quite real
- Flashbacks – intrusive re-experiencing of traumatic events
- Body symptoms – physical experiences that may be connected to dissociation
- Trance states and self-confusion
Your responses are organised across 12 subscales to give you a detailed picture of how dissociative experiences are showing up for you – and which patterns are most present.
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
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