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Old Aug 18, 2012, 11:56 AM
hamster-bamster hamster-bamster is offline
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Originally Posted by Moose72 View Post
Ok hamster. Explain what this is exactly? And how expensive?
Like 4K in my area done by the best guy, at $180 an hour - many hours are involved, several weekends of sitting together and then his deciphering the results and preparing the report. I also paid an extra $25 to have the personality disorder test read and interpreted by Theodore Millon himself, the creator of the test and the #1 name in PDs. He writes so beautifully! It was definitely worth an extra $25. My insurance covered all but $800.

The battery includes IQ (Wechsler), Millon's test, MMPI, Rorschach, SCID (psychiatric evaluation) and a bunch of other things. Then you are given what is called a multi-axial diagnosis (Axis I would be bp (I had schizoaffective at that time, but it was not confirmed later), PTSD, OCD, Axis II would be PD, etc.)

I have very unusual IQ results. I am all over the place. Strengths and weaknesses. My verbal IQ is very very much higher than non-verbal IQ. Only 3% of the population exhibit such difference. Usually verbal and non-verbal are bulked together more. So no wonder I struggle in the tech world which is quintessentially non-verbal.