Childhood Trauma Test: How Childhood Trauma Affects Adults
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Understanding Your Score on this Childhood Trauma Test
This quiz examines a variety of potentially traumatic childhood experiences. Your results on this childhood trauma test can help you better understand any childhood trauma symptoms you may be struggling with as an adult, such as problems with your mental health, relationships, or addiction.
This childhood trauma test explores the effects of potentially traumatic childhood experiences, which can sometimes be difficult to identify for ourselves. Your results on this childhood trauma test may also include treatment options for childhood trauma therapy to help with childhood trauma symptoms you may be experiencing as an adult.
None or Isolated Traumatic Experiences
Your responses on this childhood trauma test suggest you've likely had few traumatic experiences during childhood (if any) or that your experiences haven't had significant lasting effects on your well-being. In other words, you're doing well overall.
While it doesn't look like you experienced a pattern of pervasive trauma, the reality is that it only takes a single trauma to cause PTSD. During this childhood trauma test, if any experiences were particularly painful or upsetting for you to think about, you may want to consider taking a free PTSD test to evaluate any possible childhood trauma symptoms related to the experience.
Based on your score, childhood trauma therapy is not recommended, however, it's important to continue practicing self-awareness and to seek support if you suspect your past childhood experiences may be negatively affecting you socially, occupationally, or in other aspects of daily life. For more information, call today or request a free consultation to discuss your results.
Several Childhood Traumas
Your responses suggest you've had several potentially traumatic childhood experiences. While you may notice occasional childhood trauma symptoms such as low mood, mild anxiety, or fleeting memories, overall you're doing reasonably well. Childhood trauma symptoms may include feeling disproportionately upset in certain triggering situations or feeling more anxious about specific things. For example, if you frequently received the "silent treatment" as a kid, you may feel more anxious about dating relationships as an adult.
Childhood trauma symptoms can vary widely from person to person. Based on your responses on this childhood trauma test, childhood trauma therapy is recommended but completely optional. Childhood trauma therapy typically focuses on helping you process these experiences, learn new coping strategies to change patterns that aren't working, and improve your overall boundaries. For more information or to schedule an appointment, call today or request a free consultation and we'll reach out to discuss your results on this childhood trauma test.
Frequent Childhood Trauma
Your responses suggest that your childhood included a number of potentially traumatic experiences and you may struggle with certain childhood trauma symptoms as an adult. These childhood trauma symptoms may include things like feeling anxious quite often, occasional intrusive thoughts about past experiences, or difficulty managing your emotions at times.
You may also experience difficulties with people - whether in your dating life, with roommates, or with coworkers. This is a common childhood trauma symptom because the safe, secure relationships we needed in childhood were distorted by unhealthy patterns such as violence, yelling, manipulation, passive-aggressive communication, and a general lack of safe connection. While it's outside the scope of this childhood trauma test, you may want to consider completing an evaluation for CPTSD (Complex PTSD), a mental health condition commonly associated with childhood trauma.
Based on your responses on this childhood trauma test, childhood trauma therapy is strongly encouraged. Childhood trauma therapy can help you feel less overwhelmed by the changes you want to make by creating a list of priorities for change. Childhood trauma therapy should always be completed with a trained trauma therapist.
We can help. Our therapists can help you pinpoint the patterns you want to change such as unhealthy thinking spirals, how you react to certain situations, or how you communicate what you need in relationships, and equip you with new tools to manage your emotions. For more information or to schedule an appointment, call today or request a free consultation and we'll reach out to you to discuss your results on this childhood trauma test.
Severe Childhood Trauma
Your responses on this childhood trauma test suggest your childhood included a significant number of potentially traumatic experiences. Most people with severe childhood trauma experience many childhood trauma symptoms. You may have difficulties with everyday life such as being unable to work, having unstable relationships, lacking a support system, or difficulty managing your mood.
With severe trauma, childhood trauma symptoms for adults often include things like chronic depression, sleep problems, high anxiety, and difficulty feeling either safe or worthy most of the time. In the most extreme cases, childhood trauma symptoms can also include physiological problems such as psychosomatic and autoimmune conditions. Your score on this childhood trauma test suggests childhood trauma therapy is essential to help you break the cycle of childhood trauma symptoms you've been living with as an adult.
We can help. We offer childhood trauma therapy that incorporates somatic therapy to help you work through your past in a way that can help rebalance your nervous system. Childhood trauma therapy can help you process unresolved emotions (instead of just telling the story again) while equipping you with new coping strategies to help you break out of unhelpful patterns you've been stuck in. For more information or to schedule an appointment, call today or request a free consultation.
We can help.
If you or someone you love is struggling with anxiety, depression, or the effects of trauma, please reach out. We offer Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Orlando and online throughout Florida. Call today or send us your info and we’ll reach out for a free consultation to see if one of our CBT Therapists would be a good fit.
