Recovery-Readiness Check (Post-Exit)

1. 1.How is your sleep right now?
   Disrupted; insomnia, nightmares, or hypersomnia.Inconsistent but improving.Mostly stable.Stable and restorative on most nights.
2. 2.When you encounter group-specific triggers (hymns, jargon, smells, places), what happens?
   I dissociate, panic, or shut down; I lose track of where I am.I have a strong reaction but stay present.I notice the trigger; it's manageable.I notice the trigger as data; it doesn't disrupt my day.
3. 3.How do you talk about your time inside the group?
   I avoid talking about it; it feels too dangerous to revisit.I can talk about it but with significant emotional cost.I can talk about it relatively easily, in selected company.I can talk about it openly and use the experience to help others.
4. 4.What's your support network look like right now?
   I'm largely isolated; I don't know who to call.One or two people, but I worry about wearing them out.A handful of trusted people inside and outside the survivor community.A solid network of long-term ties; I'm a node in others' networks too.
5. 5.How clear is your sense of who you are outside the group's framing?
   Very unclear; the group's voice is still my default thought.Sometimes clear, sometimes not.Mostly clear; I can identify when group-thinking returns.Clear; the group's voice is one input among many, and not a dominant one.
6. 6.Are you working with a trauma-informed therapist?
   Not yet; I've been meaning to find one.Beginning to look or recently started.Yes, established for some time.Yes, multi-year relationship; have done substantial trauma processing.
7. 7.How are you with information from the group (websites, social media, ex-member chats)?
   Compulsively checking; can't look away.Frequent checking but trying to bound it.Occasional checks; mostly bounded.I engage with group-related information when it's useful and ignore it otherwise.
8. 8.Where are you in the typical anger-arrival cycle?
   Still in the relief / honeymoon stage; haven't really felt the anger.Anger is arriving; it's overwhelming.Anger has come and is becoming manageable.Anger has integrated into a stable sense of what was wrong; I can name it without being driven by it.
9. 9.How is your relationship to time?
   I feel I lost a decade and can't catch up; severe time disorientation.Disoriented, but starting to plan again.Time orientation is mostly back; planning multi-year is possible.Time-orientation is intact; the lost-years feeling is integrated, not ongoing.
10. 10.If a friend asked 'how are you, really, right now?', what would you say?
    I'm not okay. I'm holding on.I'm hurting but moving.I'm okay most days; some bad ones.I'm steadily okay, with the experience of the past now mostly integrated into my life.

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