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Old Mar 16, 2012, 01:10 PM
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Originally Posted by sidestepper View Post
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.
As far as I know no form of the MMPI (MMPI, MMPI2, MMPIA, MMPIRF, MMPI2RF, ..) contains any questions about "hanky"s I do know theres some falsified versions of MMPI floating around the internet as a way to get people to disbelieve the helpfulness, validity of psychological tests one of which does have a question about hankies and another question about bodily fluids and objects that are not on the actual psychiatric given tests.

I know many people who have viewed the online versions and have taken the actual psychiatric versions and gotten the two confused. many that I know had to take the psychiatric ones over again because they were so confused by the online versions.

if you are mixing up the actual version with the online versions, you are not the only one. the MMPI tests no matter which version you go by is very long and its hard to remember what actual questions were asked vs what you view online..