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Old Mar 15, 2012, 11:21 PM
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I don't remember the names of all the tests I took, there were many, except for the MMPI. I remember that one because at the time I was living in MN, and it was very long, and I could not answer any of the religious quesions or the one about drop the hanky. Yet my doctor said it scored me as being the highest on the honesty scale of anyone he had met, that nade me feel good because I always felt like a lier with all the time I could not account for. Actually I was called a lier a lot, and a daydreamer, but those were the nicer names. I was so sure I had failed because I couldn't answer all the questions. He went over it in detail with me, they did that with all the tests. I do remember feeling like they were trying hard to convince me that the tests could not lie, that my diagnose was right. I didn't want it. I kept telling them they must have sombody elses test, not mine. I thought it would be a relief to know what was wrong-then I could fix it-instead it was just scary.

Later someplace else they gave me the MMPI again and they had changed the drop the hanky question--and I knew what it meant this time and was ready for it--I was so disapointed! I quess there must have been a lot of people like me who had never heard of that before.
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