[Lexi232]

I took quite a few other tests too...
But along with those I took both the short and long versions of the depression, along with the mood tracker thingy...
(My anxiety test was way up there as well too, with 54)

Results of your Quick Depression Quiz You scored a total of 33
30 & up -Severe depression

Results of your Depression Quiz You scored a total of 85
54 & up - Severe depression

Mood Tracker:

• Depressed Mood: 44
• Manic Mood: 20
• Anxious Mood: 50
• Sleep: 65 (Sleep hours: 3)

19 & Below Normal mood
20 – 29 Mood of concern
30 & Above Significant mood

so yeah.. pretty much all confirms what i've been feeling.. and thinking... but i have no clue how to get out of this slump.
Has anyone else gotten any high scores like these before? or is this kind of unusual? This is the first time i've ever had any as high as this. my last depression test which was in June was 12 ... 12!!! ... that's the numbers i'm used to getting.. not 85...

[depressedalaskan]

No, Sad to say you are not alone. Most of the time I take those tests they tell me to go streight to the hospital...

[Rohag]

Hello, Lexi232! I also score in the "severe" range in these tests, but I don't pay much attention to them as my case is long-established. But that's just me...

You wrote that you've very recently been taken off a bunch of meds (by a psychiatric nurse) all at once, yes? That could easily account for the sharp rise in your score. This is something to take up with another one of your caretakers.

Wishing you some psychopharmacological stability in 2012!

[Lexi232]

thanks! and yes,
i'm still feeling the effects from all of the sudden cold turkeying it all but mostly its depression and being attacked by panic attacks for no good reason, and calmingg things dont help.
I talked to my family about taking me to the hospital , or atleast just giving me the okay as to if i needed to go. (my T brought it up yesterdya-... i think it was yesterday... lol i can't really remember if it was yesterday or farther back.. but i'm pretty sure it was yesterday) and i told her no... but im starting to reconsider that "no" into a "maybe"...

[CantExplain]

Originally Posted by Lexi232

I took quite a few other tests too...
But along with those I took both the short and long versions of the depression, along with the mood tracker thingy...
(My anxiety test was way up there as well too, with 54)

Results of your Quick Depression Quiz You scored a total of 33
30 & up -Severe depression

Results of your Depression Quiz You scored a total of 85
54 & up - Severe depression

Mood Tracker:

• Depressed Mood: 44
• Manic Mood: 20
• Anxious Mood: 50
• Sleep: 65 (Sleep hours: 3)

19 & Below Normal mood
20 – 29 Mood of concern
30 & Above Significant mood

so yeah.. pretty much all confirms what i've been feeling.. and thinking... but i have no clue how to get out of this slump.
Has anyone else gotten any high scores like these before? or is this kind of unusual? This is the first time i've ever had any as high as this. my last depression test which was in June was 12 ... 12!!! ... that's the numbers i'm used to getting.. not 85...

I sometimes find it comforting to have an objective measure of my condition. At least it confirms that I really am sick, not faking.

[Lexi232]

Yeah, that is true.

[venusss]

I always thought these tests made me come off much worse than I am. Most of my conditions are severe on these............... and I just don't see it.

[Secretum]

I think that the test writers purposefully set a low threshold so that people who need help but rate themselves modestly will still get a positive screen. I've also "passed" most tests on PC, though not the anxiety one, strangely enough (because my pdoc and I feel that I do deal w/ a lot of anxiety). It's very annoying, however, to be told that you still are sick when you are starting to feel better. Yet I think that it is better than being told that there is nothing wrong with you when you feel sick!

I sometimes find it comforting to have an objective measure of my condition.

Unfortunately, there is currently no way to objectively measure mental illness symptoms. These tests are still bound to the subjectivity of our answers. I understand your need to have some tangible evidence of your illness, though. Sometimes when we're depressed, we hate ourselves so much that the only thing keeping us from being convinced that we are completely worthless is that part of our mind that reassures us that we are actually just ill.

[venusss]

Why need an "ill" label on it? I managed to come to phase "I feel certain way, and that's okay" (yes, ripped off from that brilliant movie "I am cyborg, but that's okay" where girl deluded into thinking she is cyborg.... still thinks she is cyborg at the end of movie, but since her new found lover accomodates her differentness, she is........ okay).

Feelings are such a strange thing......... but there is not objective way to feel "Okay". You can feel depressed AND okay, because you can somehow separate it from yourself (and it does pass, it really does)......... Dwelling on not feeling right makes it worse in the end.

These tests combine random facts and add them up. And it's up to your interpretation as well...... I know my baseline is lower than most peoples, yet I have high peaks (aka the bipolar label with certain quirks). So if I am not hypomanically brilliant does it mean I have hard time concentrating and making decisions, or is that my normal self and I just expect too much of myself? I think of death all the time, but it does not bother me. I prefer when I am able to sleep only few hours a day, but that is not normal...............

heh...... this crap is so complicated.