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📄 Sample report — illustrative profile (fictional persona). Your real report is assessed from YOUR answers after the test.

Hello Emma,

Overall result

Moderate adverse experiences

You experienced moderate adverse experiences during childhood. Certain aspects of your development were affected, but you have developed resilience mechanisms.

Detailed analysis

MaltreatmentModerate

You were exposed to certain forms of maltreatment during your childhood. These experiences may have left emotional traces.

Your answers indicate present but contained manifestations on maltreatment. The moderate level typically reflects activation at times, often linked to identifiable triggers (stressful situations, relational conflicts, periods of fatigue or isolation). At this stage, the dimension is not dominant in your functioning, but it deserves observation: the main risk of the moderate level is that it worsens by accumulation. In practical terms, watching the frequency rather than the intensity of an isolated episode gives a truer picture of the trend: it is repetition, more than occasional strength, that tips the moderate toward the marked. Keeping a regular check-in (brief journal, conversation with a trusted person) can help anticipate. Identifying two or three recurring triggers and preparing a simple response in advance — a break, a call, a soothing activity — reduces the likelihood of the dimension settling in. If other dimensions evolve in parallel, this one can become more salient through cumulative effect; and if these manifestations gain ground despite your efforts, talking about it early with a professional is in no way disproportionate — it is often at this stage that support is most effective and shortest.

Recommendations

  • Identify current situations that may reactivate these memories
  • Practice emotional regulation techniques
  • Consider therapeutic support to process these experiences
NeglectHigh

You experienced significant neglect. The lack of care, attention, and security left deep marks on your self-esteem and relationships.

Your answers describe a marked trait on neglect. At this level, the dimension can self-perpetuate through self-reinforcing mechanisms (avoidance, attentional focus, or rumination), whose exact form depends on the dimension concerned. This trait typically manifests in several everyday contexts, not just in exceptional situations. Understanding the self-reinforcing mechanism is often the key: for instance, avoiding a situation brings short-term relief but confirms to the brain that it was dangerous, which strengthens avoidance the next time. Spotting this kind of loop in your own daily life — without judging yourself — is already a lever for change, because you can only act on what you have first identified. It can interact with other elevated dimensions of the profile — for instance by worsening the feeling of overload or limiting available resources to cope with it. It can be useful to talk about it with a professional (psychologist, doctor) to explore in more detail what is at play and identify levers for action; structured approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy work precisely on these chains, through small concrete and realistic steps rather than willpower alone.

Recommendations

  • Consider therapeutic work on attachment
  • Learn to identify and express your needs
  • Work on the belief that you deserve to be cared for
  • Explore therapies focused on reparenting
Family DysfunctionModerate

Your family experienced moderate dysfunction. Certain events or behaviors created instability that may have affected you.

On family dysfunction, this level calls for the same reading as detailed above for another dimension of the same intensity (see the analysis above).

Recommendations

  • Identify family patterns that you might reproduce
  • Work on creating your own healthy family model
  • Explore the systemic approach to understand family dynamics
Current ImpactHigh

Childhood traumas significantly impact your current life. Your health, relationships, and emotional well-being are strongly affected.

On current impact, this level calls for the same reading as detailed above for another dimension of the same intensity (see the analysis above).

Recommendations

  • Regular therapeutic support is strongly recommended
  • Explore trauma therapies (EMDR, SE, IFS)
  • Take care of your physical health in parallel
  • Build a solid support network

Profile synthesis

Your profile shows moderate manifestations. Some dimensions deserve attention without being alarming: they describe real but contained difficulties that do not yet occupy the center of your functioning. The moderate level is precisely the one where observation is most useful, because it can evolve in either direction depending on what is happening in your life. Identifying the contexts and moments where these dimensions intensify — fatigue, conflict, overload, isolation — gives you concrete levers to act early. Talking about it with a trusted person or a professional, even without urgency, can help clarify what is at play and avoid a worsening through accumulation.

How your dimensions interact

Several dimensions show simultaneously high scores (Neglect, Current Impact). These dimensions do not operate in isolation: they can reinforce one another, each sustaining the others in a loop that makes the overall picture heavier than the sum of its parts. The good news about this mechanism is that it also works in reverse: targeted work on one of them, often the most accessible or the most pervasive, can have positive cascading effects on the others. It is precisely this kind of link that a professional can help untangle, to choose where to start rather than facing everything at once.

Your action plan

Right now

  • Neglect — Consider therapeutic work on attachment
  • Neglect — Learn to identify and express your needs
  • Current Impact — Regular therapeutic support is strongly recommended
  • Current Impact — Explore trauma therapies (EMDR, SE, IFS)

In the coming weeks

  • Maltreatment — Identify current situations that may reactivate these memories
  • Family Dysfunction — Identify family patterns that you might reproduce

In the long run

  • Retake this test in 3 to 6 months to measure your evolution. Significant changes on elevated dimensions are often visible at this time scale.
  • If you start therapeutic work, identify together 1 or 2 priority dimensions rather than addressing everything at once — targeted work is more effective than global work.
  • Build a lasting support network: health professional (psychologist, psychiatrist, primary care doctor), close ones, possibly support groups. Solidity comes from number and complementarity.
  • Take care of physiological foundations (sleep, nutrition, physical activity): they do not cure but they strongly condition psychological availability for therapeutic work.
Your answers in detail

1. An adult in my life often insulted, humiliated, or belittled me verbally.

Answer : Somewhat disagree

You answered "Somewhat disagree". Can you tell me more about when this comes up for you?

It mainly shows up in situations that matter to me, when I feel under pressure or emotionally involved.

2. I was afraid of being physically harmed by an adult in my family.

Answer : Somewhat disagree

And how long have you noticed this?

It has been more present over the past few months, though I recognise it from before too.

3. I was regularly hit, slapped, or pushed by an adult.

Answer : Somewhat disagree

4. The punishments I received were often disproportionate or violent.

Answer : Somewhat disagree

5. I was made to feel stupid, worthless, or good for nothing.

Answer : Somewhat disagree

6. I was subjected to threats of violence or abandonment to make me obey.

Answer : Somewhat disagree

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