Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Self-Assessment
Focuses on experiences that can follow traumatic events, such as intrusive memories, avoidance, and feeling on edge.
What this assessment explores
After a traumatic experience, the effects don't always look the way people expect. Sometimes it's intrusive memories or nightmares. Sometimes it's a constant sense of threat, or feeling cut off from the people and things you used to care about. This assessment helps you understand how a traumatic event may still be affecting you – across the full range of ways PTSD can show up. It's built on the PCL-5, the gold-standard self-report measure of PTSD symptoms.
See the original scaleWhat you can expect
There are 20 questions, and they'll ask you to reflect on experiences you've had in relation to a traumatic event.
The questions touch on things like:
- Re-experiencing – intrusive memories, flashbacks, nightmares, or distressing reminders
- Avoidance – steering clear of thoughts, feelings, or situations connected to what happened
- Negative changes in thinking and mood – persistent negative beliefs, emotional numbing, or feeling disconnected from others
- Hyperarousal – being on edge, easily startled, having trouble sleeping or concentrating
Your responses give you a clearer picture of how PTSD symptoms are showing up for you right now – and how severe each cluster feels.
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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