Grief and Loss Test

This quiz is designed to help give you understand whether you may be affected by complicated grief due to the death or loss of a loved one..

 

1. Memories of the person who died or left upset me..
2. I think about this person so much that it’s hard for me to do the things I normally do.
3. I feel I cannot accept the loss of the person who died or left.
4. I feel myself longing for the person who died or left.
5. I feel drawn to the places and things associated with the person who’s gone.
6. I can’t help feeling angry about his/her death or leaving.
7. I feel disbelief over what happened.
8. I feel stunned or dazed over what happened.
9. Ever since he/she died or left, it is hard for me to trust people.
10. Ever since he/she died or left me, I feel as if I have lost the ability to care about other people or I feel distant from people I care about.
11. I feel lonely a great deal of the time ever since the loss.
12. I have pain in the same area of my body or have some of the same symptoms as the person who died.
13. I go out of my way to avoid reminders of the person who’s gone.
14. I feel that life is empty without the person who died or left.
15. I hear the voice of the person who’s no longer in my life speak to me.
16. I see the person who’s gone stand before me.
17. I feel that it is unfair that I should live when this person died or left.
18. I feel bitter over this person’s death or leaving.
19. I feel bitter over this person’s death or leaving.