The Nervous-System Symptom Screener

Are you using this for yourself or as a practitioner using it with your client?

Symptoms have lasted more than ~6 months, or come and gone for years

Tests and scans keep coming back normal, or do not match how severe the symptoms feel

Symptoms flare with stress, emotion, or random triggers such as weather, smells, or certain places

You have multiple different types of symptoms (ex: neck pain and IBS) either now or in their history

Symptoms ease with safety, rest, or distraction, and worsen with worry

Onset or major flares were within a year of a stressful or transitional time

Current or past anxiety, depression, OCD, or excessive worrying

History of trauma or an overwhelming experience('s) in life

You identify with being highly driven and/or perfectionistic

Conventional or structural treatments have not produced lasting relief

You tend to put the needs of others before your own 

You have people active in your life who caused stress for you in childhood

You worry / feel anxiety trying to manage your health

In the past few weeks, you have noticed a difficult time doing things that used to feel simple or pleasurable

If you learned that a child you care about was experiencing everything you did as a child, how would this make you feel?*