PTSD Test

Take this brief check-in to explore unwanted trauma memories, avoidance, shifts in mood or connection, feeling on guard, and everyday impact.

About 90 seconds. Answer based on the past month. You will not be asked to describe what happened. This educational self-reflection tool is designed for adults and cannot diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder or any other condition.

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Before you begin: Have you directly experienced or witnessed an event involving actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence; learned that a violent or accidental event happened to someone close to you; or had repeated work-related exposure to traumatic details?
Safety check: Are you currently having thoughts of killing yourself or seriously harming yourself?
Your Cornerstone Check-In Results

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What Your Responses May Suggest

Your Pattern at a Glance

Your answers were grouped into several areas so you can see where different experiences appeared most strongly.

Intrusion & Reactivity
Unwanted memories or dreams and strong reactions to reminders.
Avoidance & Disconnection
Avoiding reminders, feeling detached, and difficult shifts in beliefs or emotions.
Arousal & Persistence
Feeling on guard, sleep or concentration changes, and symptoms that persist or return.

What Stood Out in Your Answers

    Your Everyday Impact Matters

    You indicated that these experiences are creating meaningful stress or difficulty in at least some areas of your life.

    This matters more than achieving any particular score. You do not need a diagnosis or certainty about what is causing the pattern to seek support.

    Your Suggested Next Step

    Talk With a Therapist

    Where Would You Like to Go From Here?

    I'd Like Support

    Trauma-informed therapy can help with distressing reminders, avoidance, sleep, hypervigilance, emotional disconnection, and rebuilding a sense of safety.

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    Learn how trauma reactions are assessed and how approaches such as EMDR may fit after an individualized clinical evaluation.

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    This check-in is an original educational self-reflection tool. It is not a validated psychological assessment, diagnostic instrument, crisis evaluation, or substitute for professional evaluation. A high result does not establish PTSD, and a low result does not rule it out. PTSD requires qualifying trauma exposure, symptoms from multiple clusters, persistence, and meaningful distress or impairment; common early reactions after trauma may instead reflect an acute stress response. Similar experiences can occur with anxiety, depression, panic, grief, OCD, ADHD, dissociation, sleep problems, substance effects, medications, and medical conditions. A clinician evaluates the event context without requiring unnecessary detail, symptom timing and duration, impairment, dissociation, safety, and alternative explanations.