[A Hobbit]

Regarding the Sanity Test offered through PsychCentral, has anyone printed off results and shared with a Mental Health Care provider?

If so, what has been the response to it? Has it helped in diagnosis?

I know that one should not diagnose oneself via Google (or anything else, really), but what has been your experience in comparing online tests with real-life, in person mental diagnosis?

I'm sorry if this has been covered ad infinitum on the forum.

[iwonderaboutstuff]

Take the results with a grain of salt. Better, would be to print out all the questions, with your answers, and provide that. That would serve as a useful tool. Any clinical mental health diagnosis is made using multiple means to assess.

[Blue Swan]

Originally Posted by A Hobbit

Regarding the Sanity Test offered through PsychCentral, has anyone printed off results and shared with a Mental Health Care provider?

If so, what has been the response to it? Has it helped in diagnosis?

I know that one should not diagnose oneself via Google (or anything else, really), but what has been your experience in comparing online tests with real-life, in person mental diagnosis?

I'm sorry if this has been covered ad infinitum on the forum.

I've taken the BP Quiz a few times and fit BP II consistently, but my pdoc doesn't get real specific-he's more like I'm a BP Spectrum, maybe closer to NOS, which is basically just saying Spectrum BP. When I told him this he said he doesn't consider those quizzes as effective determiners. I get him. It is a spectrum thing, and BP is hard to compartmentalize as the inherited genes can attach to one's chromosomes in innumerable ways, however, I still want to know more specifically, but I'm learning to let go of that and focus on treating my symptoms. I admit though, I was obsessed taking that quiz, and others, about a year ago–six months into my treatment plan. Also, in my opinion, my sister fits BP I perfectly and she had a diagnosis of this about 10 years ago. I'm also pretty sure my brother is near me on the spectrum according to the quiz. One of the most poignant determiners of BP diagnosing is if siblings have been diagnosed. So, my pdoc took a lot of interest when I told him about my sis, along with my symptoms of course. I would see what a pdoc says before showing your quiz results, so as to not influence their opinion at first. Anyway, I still think the quiz is pretty dang accurate. let me know what happens! and best of luck

[pegasus]

Might be worth asking this question in The Sanity Score forum, you might get more feedback from members there.