Challenging Experiences Questionnaire
Fear
______ 4. I had the feeling something horrible would happen
______ 7. Experience of fear
______ 14. Anxiousness
______ 21. Panic
______ 26. I felt frightened
Grief
______ 2. Sadness
______ 6. Feelings of grief
______ 9. I felt like crying
______ 11. Feelings of despair
______ 23. Despair
Physical Distress
______ 3. Feeling my heart beating
______ 5. Feeling my body shake/tremble
______ 15. I felt shaky inside
______ 17. I felt my heart beating irregularly or skipping beats
______ 18. Pressure or weight in my chest or abdomen
______ 25. Emotional and/or physical suffering
Insanity
______ 8. Fear that I might lose my mind or go insane
______ 13. I was afraid that the state I was in would last forever
______ 19. I experienced a decreased sense of sanity
Isolation
___ 1. Isolation and loneliness
______ 10. Feeling of isolation from people and things
______ 24. I felt isolated from everything and everyone
Death
______ 16. I had the profound experience of my own death
______ 20. I felt as if I was dead or dying
Paranoia
______ 12. I had the feeling that people were plotting against me
______ 22. Experience of antagonism toward people around meClinician Administered Dissociative Symptoms Scale