Trauma PTSD Exercise - Impact Statement

Instructions: Write an impact statement on a separate piece of paper about how the traumatic event has affected you (at least one page). 

What does it mean to you that this experience has occurred?

Focus on any guilt you have regarding the trauma and the effects of the event on your beliefs about yourself, others, and the world.

Consider how your beliefs about safety, trust, power/control, esteem, and intimacy may have been affected.

Examples:

If you think that you should have been able to stop the event, then you likely feel guilty.

If you decided that no one can be trusted as a result of the event, then you likely behave as though that were true.

Source: 7Cups Self-help for Trauma