Free, Confidential PTSD Checklist (PCL-5)

Anonymously Benchmark Your Trauma Symptoms and Explore Recovery Alternatives

Living with the echoes of a deeply stressful or traumatic experience can trap your nervous system in a permanent loop of fight-or-flight. If flashbacks, chronic avoidance, hypervigilance, or intense emotional distress have become part of your routine, discovering your baseline score is a vital step toward long-term recovery.

The PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5) is a 20-item standard diagnostic screening scale developed by the National Center for PTSD. It maps out your symptoms across the official psychological diagnostic categories to assist in evaluating your condition.

Private, Safe, and Informative

• 100% Client-Side Privacy: Your answers stay entirely within your browser. To ensure total peace of mind, no medical choices, answers, or points are recorded or transmitted to any database.

• Detailed Symptom Breakdown: This automated tool checks both your absolute numerical baseline score (0-80) and evaluates the distinct DSM-5 criteria clusters (Intrusion, Avoidance, Cognition/Mood, and Arousal).

• A Modern Alternative for Trauma: Traditional mental health treatments can take months to dull symptoms, often leaving the underlying neural trauma intact. Clinical research shows that Ketamine Infusion Therapy blocks NMDA receptors, promoting rapid synaptogenesis to help the brain safely process trauma and disrupt deep-seated PTSD loops.

Please reflect on your experiences over the past month. Review each prompt carefully and select how much you have been bothered by it.