Day 1 - Healing from the Influence of Trauma - the Introduction
WELCOME TO DAY 1 of
HEALING FROM THE INFLUENCE OF TRAUMA
If you are 35 years old and still responding to life as a 10-year-old, you are living in arrested development. Chronological development continued
while emotional development remains stuck in the past.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is in play when triggering events
cause victims to relive experiences over and over. These are not the only two
spin-off conditions. Others include anger, depression, bipolar disorder,
borderline personality, addictions, obesity, and other compulsive conditions
all because there has been no intervention between what happened when it
happened and the age you are now.
How do you know when you need help? The Adverse Childhood
Experience Questionnaire will answer that question for you. It follows.
The ACE Questionnaire
The ACE Questionnaire is a simple scoring system that
attributes one exposure to trauma, which have been associated with a greater
risk of negative point for each category of adverse childhood experience. The
10 questions below each cover a different domain of trauma and refer to
experiences that occurred prior to the age of 18. Higher scores indicate
increased consequences.
While you were growing up, during your first 18 years of
life:
1. Did a parent or other adult in the household often or
very often… Swear at you, insult you, put you down, or humiliate you? or Act in
a way that made you afraid that you might be physically hurt? YES NO If yes,
enter 1 _____
2. Did a parent or other adult in the household often or
very often… Push, grab, slap, or throw something at you? or Ever hit you so
hard that you had marks or were injured? YES NO If yes, enter 1 _____
3. Did an adult or person at least five years older than
you ever… Touch or fondle you or have you touch their body in a sexual way? or
Attempt or actually have oral, anal, or vaginal intercourse with you? YES NO If
yes, enter 1 _____
4. Did you often or very often feel that… No one in your
family loved you or thought you were important or special? or Your family
didn’t look out for each other, feel close to each other, or support each
other? YES NO If yes, enter 1 _____
5. Did you often or very often feel that … You didn’t
have enough to eat, had to wear dirty clothes, and had no one to protect you?
or Your parents were too drunk or high to take care of you or take you to the
doctor if you needed it? YES NO If yes, enter 1 _____
6. Were your parents ever separated or divorced? YES NO
If yes, enter 1 _____
7. Was your mother or stepmother: Often or very often
pushed, grabbed, slapped, or had something thrown at her? or Sometimes, often,
or very often kicked, bitten, hit with a fist, or hit with something hard? or
Ever repeatedly hit at least a few minutes or threatened with a gun or knife?
YES NO If yes, enter 1 _____
8. Did you live with anyone who was a problem drinker or
alcoholic or who used street drugs? YES NO If yes, enter 1 _____
9. Was a household member depressed or mentally ill, or
did a household member attempt suicide? YES NO If yes, enter 1 _____
10. Did a household member go to prison? YES NO If yes,
enter 1 _____
Now add up your “Yes”
answers: _______. This is your ACE Score
Click this link to take the Well Being Quiz
Click this link to read the Psychology Today article on Self - Awareness
Click this link to read the article on Effects of Childhood Trauma
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