Posted by Larry Hoover on July 24, 2004, at 8:54:22
In reply to Online Personality Disorder Test, posted by SandyWeb on July 24, 2004, at 8:09:46
> Just for fun.
I'm glad you said, "Just for fun."
> http://www.4degreez.com/misc/personality_disorder_test.mv
>I was low on everything, except high schizoid. Ya, right. I live alone because it's easier to manage my depression and other disorders, not because I'm cold, distant, and eccentric. I am eccentric, but that's because I don't take myself too seriously. Y'all can have your prejudice. I can't be bothered.
The problem in diagnosing personality disorders is that you should seek all alternative explanations for the behaviour before attributing the behaviour to stable character traits. Just a cautionary statement about tests like this....personality disorders are Axis II in the DSM diagnostic hierarchy. Axis I disorders, those with a biological basis (I know, it's arbitrary), are the first diagnoses to consider, and they must be excluded before moving to Axis II.
Still, it's interesting to have suggestions from tests like this one. Might point to fruitful avenues of cognitive introspection.
Lar
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