• Do I Have Trauma?

  • This is a self-reflection quiz about experiences that may have shaped how your nervous system responds now.

    It won’t diagnose you, and it can’t tell the whole story of your life (that would be a very ambitious little form). It may help you notice some patterns, put language around what you’ve lived through, and get a clearer sense of what may help next.

    The more questions you answer, the more useful your result is likely to be. But if a question doesn’t apply, leave it. You can also skip anything you don’t want to answer, pause, or stop.

    Some questions mention childhood sexual abuse, physical violence, neglect, domestic violence and other Hard Things.

    This quiz doesn’t cover every kind of trauma, so there is space to add something I may have missed. It also isn’t the ACE quiz, which looks at adverse childhood experiences and their relationship to later health impacts (worth a Google later).

    At the end, you’ll receive one of three broad results, with some thoughts about what may help next. Please screenshot or save your result before leaving the page.

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  • I experienced some form of CSA (child s3xual abuze: ie gr00ming that got stopped, or resulted in ie favouritism, and / or CSA, exposure to *orn, and more).Select all that apply.
  • If you experienced CSA, was it from someone you knew?
  • If you experienced CSA, was it "persistent" - the legal definition of this in Australia is 3 or more times.
  • I experienced physical violence / beatings from my parent/s...
  • I experienced neglect, choose all that apply:
  • Nothing I ever did was good enough
  • I was bullied as a child/teen
  • Teachers picked on me when I was a child/teen
  • I moved house / schools a lot
  • I had a teen pregnancy I was forced to terminate
  • I witnessed  intimate partner / domestic violence as a child / teen
  • I was made to be very aware of my weight by one or both parents, this meant:
  • I'd like to learn about the impact of trauma on me now. Select all that apply. We will use this to decide what to make next, and reach out if it seems appropriate.

  • Please screenshot or save your result now.

    Then press Submit below so a copy can also be sent to your inbox.

  • You struggle to be okay and keep all the balls in the air

    My reading of your quiz is that you have experienced quite a high level of trauma. You might experience things like anger easily, you might slip out / disocciate easily, you probably forget to eat and drink properly or enough, and need to learn to connect with yourself and others again. Many people at this level of experiencing have had some kind of addiction issues, health issues, body issues too. You’re struggling to keep it together… 


    The good news is that you will start to feel calmer and more steady as soon as you start to implement some capacity building - this is learning the skills to hold Hard Things, and subsequently, letting them go! 


    The beautiful news is that those around you will feel better too, including pets! The later steps in recovery feel a lot easier once you’ve learned a bit more about what the heck is going on, and built some capacity to hold hard things - skills of step one. The two things are your mission, should you choose to accept it! 


    To help, an email has been sent to you with some educational information and a helpful tool to get you started on your journey. I hope it helps! They should do, because these are the exact things that have helped me and SO many of my clients!

     

    Now, screenshot or turn this into a PDF and keep learning, keep healing!

    If you need support, please ensre you contact a helpline, some Australian ones are:

    1800RESPECT, Lifeline and 000, these are available 24/7.

  • It was a bit too often and too much to feel okay about it, most of the time...

    The thing with trauma, is it’s all relative. So whilst you “scored” mid to high level, you well know how hard life can be, how it can go from being okay to really not okay in an instant, and you don’t like it! Sometimes you do things that you have sworn you won’t do and beat yourself up for it, no matter how many things you try you can’t seem to grasp some of these things you wish you would (or wouldn’t) do, and if you do manage to - something else explodes sideways at some point.  People think you have it together, but they don’t know the truth…


    The good news is there is a light at the end of the tunnel, I know because I’ve been there! You can get control of the issues you have, you can be calmer/ connect more (two sides of the same coin), and life can be easier. 


    Learning about why we do what we do and why our bodies kinda take over - helps. As does learning the very first step of recovery from this stuff, which is how to build some capacity for you to Hold Hard Things. These two things are your step one!

    Now, screenshot or turn this into a PDF and keep learning, keep healing!

    If you need support, please ensre you contact a helpline, some Australian ones are:

    1800RESPECT, Lifeline and 000, these are available 24/7.

  • Sometimes you’re okay, sometimes not, and you don’t get why… and it don’t feel “normal!”

    The thing with trauma, is it’s all relative. So whilst you “scored” in the lower levels of this quiz, you well know how hard life can be, how it can go from being okay to… Really not okay in an instant, and you don’t like it! Sometimes you do things that you have sworn you won’t do and beat yourself up for it, no matter how many things you try you can’t seem to grasp some of these things you wish you would (or wouldn’t) do, and if you do manage to - something else explodes sideways at some point. It’s like these Hard Things just jump up out of nowhere, or there’s this low-level hum of stress and overthinking that you can’t seem to… get done with!


    The good news is there is a light at the end of the tunnel, I know because I’ve been there! You can get control of the issues you have, you can be calmer/ connect more (two sides of the same coin), and life can be easier. 


    Learning about why we do what we do and why our bodies kinda take over - helps. As does learning the very first step of recovery from this stuff, which is how to build some capacity for you to Hold Hard Things. These two things are your step one!

    Now, screenshot or turn this into a PDF and keep learning, keep healing! 

     

    If you need support, please ensre you contact a helpline, some Australian ones are:

    1800RESPECT, Lifeline and 000, these are available 24/7.

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