Did the pain and/or symptoms originate during or after a stressful time or traumatic event?

Did the symptoms originate without an injury or physical impairment?

Do symptoms persist long after an original injury has healed? (example: sports injury from long ago still acts up)

Are symptoms inconsistent?

Do they come and go?

Do they fluctuate in intensity?

Do they “move around” to other parts of your body?

Are they only present during certain times of the day or certain days of the week?

Do they occur after, but not during, and activity or exercise?

Are symptoms unexplainable by a known structural condition or disease pathology? Are doctors unable to find any clear cause for the symptoms?

Do you experience multiple unrelated symptoms at once? Do you experience any other physical symptom/pain now? 

Do you have symmetrical symptoms? Symptoms that mirror each other on both the right and left sides of the body (example: pain in both wrists or ankles). 

Are symptoms triggered by factors that have nothing to do the body? Examples: The weather, physical positions, activites, smells, sounds, light, time of day, etc.

Do symptoms get trigged by or increase during times of stress? 

Do symptoms decrease/go away when you’re authentically engaged in something enjoyable? Or when you’re very focused in conversation or in an activity?

Do you have a history of unexplained symptoms without a structural or medical cause?

Do you have co-occuring mental health conditions or a history of mental health conditions? (e.g., depression, anxiety disorder, PTSD, OCD, health anxiety or eating disorder)

Do you have a history of childhood adversity/trauma or a history of traumatic event(s)? 

Can you identify with one or more learned behaviors/learned traits: Perfectionsim, Conscientiousness, People Pleasing and/or Anxiousness? 

Do you often find yourself engaging in self-criticism and/or worry? 

Do you have high expectations of yourself and others? 

Do you have a family history of chronic pain or other chronic non-pain symptoms?