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Originally Posted by Mattmx
These tests are extremely inaccurate, and should be avoided if you're trying to figure yourself out. They are biased based on your current emotions and outlook on life, along with the bias the writer of the test has not to mention the fact that the personality disorder field as a whole is all theory. Need I say more?
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In deed. Current mood. Theory.
I cannot afford therapy, as an outpatient; and even if I had all the money in the world, I would never be completely honest with a therapist about everything I have ever done, thought about, or currently think about, due to an understanding of the exceptions to confidentiality requirements. That leaves me trying to figure it out myself, as you put it. That has caused me to read Hare's list, and other books like The Mask Of Sanity, Snakes In Suits, and the bare bone DSM categories and symptoms. What I would really like to do is just start from the beginning, psychology 101 and work my way up. Anyone know of any FREE online, college-grade text books?
I know I am in the ASPD category, and which one specifically, because two times in the last 20 years I have been told there were some certain characteristics reflected that I am now seeing in published studies showing correlations among a certain subset of ASPD. Yet comorbidity makes nothing so simple. I just wish I had free online text books to go through so I could make heads or tales of the other issues.