Dissociative Experiences Scale (Brief)

Name:			Age:	Sex: Male Female		Date:
Instructions: For each statement below, please check (✓) the box that best answers each question to show how much each thing has happened to you in the past SEVEN (7) DAYS.
						CLINICIAN USE
	Not at all	Once or twice	Almost every day	About once a day	More than once a day	ITEM SCORE
1. I find myself staring into space and thinking of nothing.	0	1	2	3	4
2. People, objects, or the world around me seem strange or unreal.	0	1	2	3	4
3. I find that I did things that I do not remember doing.	0	1	2	3	4
4. When I am alone, I talk out loud to myself.	0	1	2	3	4
5. I feel as though I were looking at the world through a fog so that people and things seem far away or unclear.	0	1	2	3	4
6. I am able to ignore pain.	0	1	2	3	4
7. I act so differently from one situation to another that it is almost as if I were two different people.	0	1	2	3	4
8. I can do things very easily that would usually be hard for me.	0	1	2	3	4
Total/partial raw score:
Prorated total raw score: (if 1-2 items left unanswered)
Average total score:

DES-B (Dalenberg C, Carlson E, 2010) modified for DSM-5 by C. Dalenberg and E. Carlson.

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