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Originally Posted by Kacey2
Has anyone ever failed the mmpi 2? I had to take it to get into this new DBT skills training and the pysch who evaluated the exam said that I showed too much distress and that my answers were inconsistent so the results were inconclusive. WTF???? I answered everything soooo honestly. I am shocked. I didn't overthink anything and really what came to my mind when I read each question is what I put down. I did not try to make myself seem like a better person than I am. Seriously this is more demoralizing than anything.
She also gave me the ink blot test and just said a bunch of things like; I am seriously impaired in this.......and have major deficits in ........
Does anyone ever come out looking normal after these?
This is really getting to me. I think I should just quit this skills training because she said that I was only a fair candidate and that I would struggle very hard with myself to learn new ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving. 
Has anyone else had a bad experience in testing? |
there is no pass or fail with MMPI and MMPI2. its a questionaire to look for mental disorders and what kinds of jobs you are qualified for and what your likes and dislikes are.
inconsistancies can happen and does happen alot. it doesnt maena your a good or bad person or you failed the tests.
inconsistancies can happenif you misread a question
example
if you mark yes for "I have suicidal thoughts" and mark no for "do you think about suicide." both are asking the same thing just in a different way.
inconsistancies can also happen if someone is trying to hide their mental disorder symptoms.
example
if if ou dont want to appear to have DID and mark no for "do you hear voices"
hearing voices is a shared symptom of DID as well as many other physical and mental health issues such as sleep depravation, schizophrenia, bipolar, schizo affective disorder depression..
but yet you may mark yes for having times when you are sad.
one symptom has been knocked out (marked no) and the other symptom has been ruled in. so the computer cant say for sure one way or the other.
inconsistancies also happen when the person taking the test tries to manipulate the tests to show they have a certain mental disorder. mental disorders share many of the same symptoms so when you mark yes to some symptoms you may not have the test cant point to any one disorder. it throws the test results off.
for example if you want to appear to have DID and you mark you hear voices, have alters, have memory problems feel numb much of the time the scoring says you tested positive for DID, schizophreina, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder alzheimers, aspergers. the computer has so many positives that it cant point to one disorder.
my suggestion tell your psychiatrist you were not up to your best and would like to retake the evaluation. You will be given a different test but as long as you take your time and read each question and mark them honestly you will get accurate results.
