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Post Abortion Stress Checklist |
The following questionnaire has been designed to help you identify symptoms in your life that may be related to a past abortion experience.
Select the symptoms that may pertain to you:
- Sadness
- Feelings of loss
- Guilt
- Regret
- Recurring thoughts about the abortion(s)
- Crying episodes
- Anxiety
- Inability to sustain an intimate relationship
- Preoccupation with anniversaries, i.e., date of the abortion(s) or due date(s)
- Obsession with children or child-bearing issues
- Avoidance of small children and babies
- Increased alcohol use
- Drug abuse
- Repeat abortions
- Multiple sexual relationships
- Engaging in any of the following to excess: school, work, exercise, eating, dieting
- Difficulty sleeping
- Feelings of numbness, lack of self-esteem
- Suicidal impulses
- Desires for secrecy about the abortion
- Disinterest in sex