PTSD Test
A quiet look at how much alertness and tension go with you through ordinary days. There is nothing to recall or explain, and your full result appears right away.
≈3 min Questions: 16
If you are here, maybe part of you is still braced even when the day is calm. This test does not ask you to recall or describe anything, and it does not judge whether you are coping well or badly. It only shows how present a few signs are in your life today. For each of the 16 questions, choose the answer closest to how things are right now, and the full result waits at the end. It takes about three minutes. What would it be like to let your guard down a little?
PTSD Test
Quiet days
Feeling settled needs no explanation. Let it simply be yours.
Your answers describe days where thoughts come and go without a fuss, sleep holds, and your body lets you sit down. You may still catch yourself waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Nothing here needs proving or guarding. Being at ease is not something you have to earn twice.
This test asks nothing about the past, so this result says nothing about it either. What it shows is that your days are not being run through the lens of post-traumatic stress right now.
A mind at ease has usually found that it can put things down. Picture a cat asleep on a sunny windowsill, trusting the room.
One small step: sit down with a warm drink.
StillNormal
Maryna Lyadneva psychologist
PTSD Test
Quiet days
Feeling settled needs no explanation. Let it simply be yours.
Your answers describe days where thoughts come and go without a fuss, sleep holds, and your body lets you sit down. You may still catch yourself waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Nothing here needs proving or guarding. Being at ease is not something you have to earn twice.
This is my result. What will the test show you?
Take the test · stillnormal.com
PTSD Test
Background hum
A small trace still counts. You are allowed to notice it.
A memory drops in unasked, a topic gets steered around, a night of sleep runs lighter than you would like.
Traces like these are real, and having them is part of how a careful mind works. They sit next to your good days without spoiling them.
It seems a small readiness can stay switched on at low volume, much like a refrigerator that hums in a quiet kitchen and goes unnoticed until the room falls silent. These are marks of how things sit today, nothing more.
That part of you exists to protect you, and it may not always know the job is done.
One small step: write a line in a notebook about something that went fine today.
StillNormal
Maryna Lyadneva psychologist
PTSD Test
Background hum
A small trace still counts. You are allowed to notice it.
A memory drops in unasked, a topic gets steered around, a night of sleep runs lighter than you would like.
Traces like these are real, and having them is part of how a careful mind works. They sit next to your good days without spoiling them.
This is my result. What will the test show you?
Take the test · stillnormal.com
PTSD Test
Mixed weather
Somewhere in between? That is an honest answer.
Some parts of your day run light while others carry real weight: a night of good sleep beside a sound that makes you jump, a friend who feels close beside a topic that stays off limits.
Landing in the middle is a real result, and it deserves to be read as one. It describes a specific mix, area by area.
Stress reactions can arrive in patches, so one area runs loud while another stays calm. One answer changed here or there could have moved you a step to either side, which shows how near the middle you stand.
A spring afternoon changes its sky by the hour, and nobody calls the weather broken. You do not have to force a verdict on yourself.
One small step: tidy a single drawer or shelf at home.
StillNormal
Maryna Lyadneva psychologist
PTSD Test
Mixed weather
Somewhere in between? That is an honest answer.
Some parts of your day run light while others carry real weight: a night of good sleep beside a sound that makes you jump, a friend who feels close beside a topic that stays off limits.
Landing in the middle is a real result, and it deserves to be read as one. It describes a specific mix, area by area.
This is my result. What will the test show you?
Take the test · stillnormal.com
PTSD Test
Hard to ignore
You are not overreacting. You are describing something real.
More than one part of your life seems to be working overtime, and you can name each part clearly.
Carrying this costs daily energy, so feeling tired makes sense. You are doing a lot of work that nobody sees.
It looks like a protective mode has been switched on, and it may be taking more energy than it gives back. Naming the pieces this precisely tells me you see what is going on.
It is like carrying a full laundry basket from room to room: heavy, and no comment on the person carrying it.
One small step: call someone close to you to say hello.
StillNormal
Maryna Lyadneva psychologist
PTSD Test
Hard to ignore
You are not overreacting. You are describing something real.
More than one part of your life seems to be working overtime, and you can name each part clearly.
Carrying this costs daily energy, so feeling tired makes sense. You are doing a lot of work that nobody sees.
This is my result. What will the test show you?
Take the test · stillnormal.com
PTSD Test
No off switch
Naming this plainly takes clear sight. Help can begin there.
Alertness seems to reach into nearly every corner of your day: memories on their own schedule, subjects you steer around, a heavy mood, a body that stays keyed up.
Taking a test like this is a sensible thing to do, and it makes sense that you are worn down.
A mind in constant readiness can find it hard to stand down, and that costs energy in every other part of life.
A short test sees only how this shows up in your day. The whole picture is something a psychologist can see. The question worth asking is whether this gets in the way of living your days. Psychologists hear about this regularly and know how to work with it.
A hallway light can stay on out of habit, as a way of keeping watch.
One small step: write to a psychologist and ask about a first appointment.
StillNormal
Maryna Lyadneva psychologist
PTSD Test
No off switch
Naming this plainly takes clear sight. Help can begin there.
Alertness seems to reach into nearly every corner of your day: memories on their own schedule, subjects you steer around, a heavy mood, a body that stays keyed up.
Taking a test like this is a sensible thing to do, and it makes sense that you are worn down.
This is my result. What will the test show you?
Take the test · stillnormal.com Maryna Lyadneva psychologist
How this test works
Where the questions come from, what the scale rests on, and why the result is not a diagnosis.
How strongly signs of post-traumatic stress, across memories, avoidance, mood and alertness, show up in the reader's own life today, as reported by the reader.
Methodology
The test measures how strongly four kinds of experience show up in a person's life today: heightened alertness and reactivity, shifts in thinking and mood, keeping away from reminders, and memories or dreams that arrive uninvited. Four questions cover each. The grouping comes from research on post-traumatic stress and lines up with the framework clinicians use, named DSM-5.
The questions were written for this test. None of them asks anyone to recall, name or describe an event, and the total says only how present these signs feel right now.
A self-report is a snapshot of how a person sees their own days. Where to read more about what a professional assessment involves.
This is not a diagnostic tool and cannot stand in for a professional. Only a qualified specialist, after a proper assessment, can make a diagnosis. The test does not diagnose post-traumatic stress or any other condition, and it neither confirms nor rules one out. It does not check any event and does not ask for one to be remembered. It rests on one short self-report, with no conversation with a clinician and no verification of any answer.
Questions
Do I need to have gone through one specific event to take this test?
Anyone can take it, whether or not a single clear event comes to mind. The questions stay with ordinary days as they are today and never ask you to name, recall or sort anything into a type. There is nothing to prepare and nothing to explain.
Is the test free?
Yes. The full result appears right after the last question, with no sign-in, no trial period and no payment step.
How accurate is an online test like this, and can it get things wrong?
Yes, it can be off. A rough week, a rushed click or an unusual day can tilt the answers, and nothing in the test can check them. What you get is a picture of how you see your days right now. By itself that cannot confirm or rule out anything, and it is not a clinical assessment.
Can this test tell me if I have PTSD?
No, and no short online questionnaire can. This one shows how strongly certain signs are present in your days today, which is a different thing from an evaluation. A diagnosis comes only from a qualified professional after a proper clinical assessment. The methodology section says where to read about what that involves.
What does a professional look at when deciding whether it is PTSD?
Not a score from a test like this one. A professional decides in conversation, looking at whether signs appear in each of four areas of experience and whether they have held on for a noticeable stretch of time. A self-report cannot count that or settle it.
Sources
- Weathers, F. W., Litz, B. T., Keane, T. M., Palmieri, P. A., Marx, B. P., & Schnurr, P. P. (2013). The PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5). National Center for PTSD.
- Bovin, M. J., Marx, B. P., Weathers, F. W., Gallagher, M. W., Rodriguez, P., Schnurr, P. P., & Keane, T. M. (2016). Psychometric properties of the PTSD Checklist for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders–Fifth Edition (PCL-5) in veterans. Psychological Assessment, 28(11), 1379–1391. doi:10.1037/pas0000254.
- Prins, A., Bovin, M. J., Smolenski, D. J., Marx, B. P., Kimerling, R., Jenkins-Guarnieri, M. A., Kaloupek, D. G., Schnurr, P. P., Pless Kaiser, A., Leyva, Y. E., & Tiet, Q. Q. (2016). The Primary Care PTSD Screen for DSM-5 (PC-PTSD-5): Development and evaluation within a Veteran primary care sample. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 31, 1206–1211. doi:10.1007/s11606-016-3703-5.
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