Inventory of Complicated Grief (ICG)

For each statement below, please select the response that most accurately applies to how you are feeling:

I think about this person so much that it’s hard for me to do the things I normally do.

Memories of the person who died upset me.

I feel I cannot accept the death of the person who died.

I feel myself longing for the person who died.

I feel drawn to places and things associated with the person who died.

I can’t help feeling angry about his/her death.

I feel disbelief over what happened.

I feel stunned or dazed over what happened.

Ever since he/she died, it is hard for me to trust people.

Ever since he/she died, I feel as if I have lost the ability to care about other people or I feel distant from people I care about.

I feel lonely a great deal of the time ever since he/she died.

I have pain in the same area of my body or have some of the same symptoms as the person who died.

I go out of my way to avoid reminders of the person who died.

I feel that life is empty without the person who died.

I hear the voice of the person who died speak to me.

I see the person who died stand before me.

I feel that is is unfair that I should live when this person died.

I feel bitter over this person’s death.

I feel envious of other who have not lost someone close.