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Originally Posted by Luce
Blah. We had to do some questionnaires for the assessment process in T yesterday, including the DES. I hate that test. How the heck are you supposed to answer any of those stupid questions? "What *percentage of the time do you find yourself wearing different clothes?" (or however they word it)
Ummm, how do you answer that? If there are 24 hours in a day and that particular thing only happens to me about twice a month or so, and each time 'finding myself....' in that particular situation only lasts for a second or two, I would answer <0.000001% of the time, right? Right?? 
I was so confused by not knowing how to quantify the answers we had to give it up and now have to do it next time. I hate that stoopid thing! |
the DES is meant to be vague, its not only used for dissociative disorders now. many mental disorders here in america now contain dissociative symptoms as does normal situations. it doesnt diagnose a person with a dissociative disorder. just lets the test taker know where their level of dissociation is at during general non triggering, non dissociative disorder situations.
the percentages are mostly for those who's mind works in percentages. (for example...people who think things like on a scale of 1- 10 I put myself at 2 for my ability to what ever)
for this test the test score circles are in increments of 10. for example when I was not integrated I found that my finding things i didnt remember buying was at never but after integration I found many things around the house I didnt remember buying, and just didnt notice them before integration because I was so dissociated with my surroundings. therefore after integration I marked 90 because there was that rare day that went by that I did not find things I had bought before integration.
where as someone else I know their scoring was the opposite. their awareness of their surroundings before integration was so keen that they repeatedly found new items they did not remember buying.
my point dont worry so much about trying to score the test perfect. there is no such thing as a perfect scoring one way or the other. usually a perfect score points to not having a dissociative problem\being normal or trying to manipulate the test.
the best thing to do is just go on your gut of what your own problems feel like.