Table 1 Mental health scales defined

- Low in energy, slowed down

- Hopeless about the future

- Others are hostile to you*

- Suddenly scared for no reason

- Hearing voice of deceased person speaking to you

- Blaming self for things

- Loss of interest in things

- Feeling you have no one to rely on*

- Fearful

- Seeing deceased person standing in front of you

- Crying easily

- Trouble sleeping

- Finding out you have done something you cannot remember*

- Faintness

- Feeling you have lost your sense of control

- Loss of sexual interest or pleasure

- Recurrent thoughts or memories of events

- Feeling split into two people, one is watching what the other is doing*

- Nervousness

- Feeling the death of someone close has changed your world view

- Poor appetite

- Feeling events happening again

- Feeling betrayed*

- Heart pounding or racing

- Having pain same part of your body or same symptoms as people who have died

- Difficulty sleeping

- Nightmares

- Unable to express feelings*

- Trembling

- Feeling moving on with your life would be difficult

- Hopeless about the future

- Unable to feel emotions

- Fighting with others*

- Feeling tense

- Envious of others who have not lost someone

- Depressed

- Jumpy, easily startled

- Blaming self for things*

- Headaches

- Lost ability to care about others

- Lonely

- Difficulty concentrating

- Tense*

- Episodes of terror or panic

- Drawn to places and things associated with people who have died

- Thoughts of ending your life

- Avoiding activities that remind of events

- Feeling restless, can’t sit still

- Imitating behaviors of people who have died

- Feeling not free or caught

- Inability to remember parts of events

- Feeling as if already dead

- Worrying to much about things

- Avoiding thoughts/feelings associated with events

- Waiting for dead relatives to come back*

- Loss of interest in things

- Suddenly feeling very different emotionally or physically when reminded of events

- Everything you do is difficult

- Irritable or outbursts of anger

- Inferior to others

- Lost ability to care about other people

- Feeling desperate*

- Feeling people do not understand what happened to you*

- Wishing you were dead*

- Difficulty performing work or daily tasks*

- The brain is tired*

- Guilty for having survived*

- Unable to enjoy feasts or other celebrations*

- Ashamed that events happened to you*

- Thinking too much*

- Spending time thinking why events happened to you*

- Feeling as if going crazy*

- Feeling you are the only person who has suffered these events*