well......

Thanks Jax! I like your dog!!

tokidoki: I think the more important question is do you FEEL you are doing well (outside of these results)?

Do your friends / partner / relatives / doc / pdoc think you are doing well / ok?

I am sure it's a great tool but unless you are hypomanic or manic or such, and think you're doing a lot better than you are, I would hesitate to let the results of such a test overrule common sense and a real-life estimate of your state of mind.

That said, maybe it identified other things for you to think about - I don't know.

Good idea to mention it to doc, but just IMO, remember it's a screening tool and it's online, which doesn't replace a real life professional and assessment of your real life functioning.

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I have to chime in here as it seems that people are giving this quiz thing alot of validity when it has none. This kind of thing is meant for fun and has no scientific validity when it comes to measuring how sane (not even a clinical word) or insane you are, or your mental health status at all. What it does portray is how you view your own mental health, and we know that there is little correlation with how patients view thier own mental health status and what it really is. Please take this quiz with a grain of salt....... Have fun with it, but don't take the results to your doc or T, and don't take the results as any kind of valid measure.

Dr.S

i posted a good post yesterday about the reason we're here taking these tests is that we're all nuts and it can't mean that much to us.....we're doing how we're doing............xoxoxo pat

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i posted a good post yesterday about the reason we're here taking these tests is that we're all nuts and it can't mean that much to us.....we're doing how we're doing............xoxoxo pat

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Yes you are right for many I'm sure, but I don't see that coming through in tokidoki's posts ... sorry to disagree, I don't mean to be disrespectful xoxo

> I have to chime in here as it seems that people are giving this quiz thing alot of validity when it has none.

But it SAYS: 'a mental wellness test that has been scientifically designed'...

Scientifically designed.

AND (as if that wasn't enough) endorsed by: 'the Internet's largest and oldest mental health social network created and run by mental health professionals to guarantee reliable, trusted information'.

To guarantee.

My thought was that since sanity and insanity aren't scientific terms (as you note) one is able to operationally define the terms however one wants (ie insane JUST IS getting a high score on the quiz).

Though... It is indeed assessing ones beliefs about / view of oneself more than anything. I often think that being labelled tends to have a negative affect on that (self fulfilling prophecy) but people do seem to have this compulsion to take the tests that put them into boxes...

> we know that there is little correlation with how patients view thier own mental health status and what it really is.

Though self report inventories are a fairly common way of assessing the severity of the problem prior, during, and after therapy in order to assess the efficacy of therapy. Perhaps... One wouldn't want to undermine that...

I really don't mean to criticise in a bad way... But I guess I am concerned (because I am in fact starting to care about this site, yeah). I'm concerned that saying things like 'scientifically designed' without providing a link to information on precisely how it is designed and providing a guarantee on information (where there is often controversy among experts) kind of undermine the claim to reliability and undermine the scientific credability of the site.

To be scientific it isn't enough to SAY that one is. To provide reliable, trusted information it isn't enough to SAY that the information is reliable and trustworthy. These things are shown by providing the information such that people can assess the scientific credibility for themselves and same for the quality of the information. Kind of a 'wisest is he who knows he does not know' humility thing...

On a related note I've spoken before about the problem with guaranteeing anonymity. There are a variety of situations where anonymity can in fact be breeched and to PROMISE this is to make a promise that one does not have the power to follow through on should certain events occur. I appreciate that the idea is to reassure people but I do in fact have issues with reassurance when one is kind of setting oneself up to fail at some point.

All these things do get the internal alarm bells ringing... Which might well be why I'm in critical thinking mode here probably more so than elsewhere. I feel like I need to be cautious precisely because there is so much encouragement not to be... To just trust and follow on faith... Where that needs to be earned and not coaxed out of one with smooth words and emotive language...

Anyway... Back to your regularly scheduled program...

i agree with you, alex. i certainly am not going to take any cues about my mental health from a quiz on the internet.

I just need a quiz with one question:

How craptacular do you feel on a scale of 1 to 10?

1 - Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Yeeeee-Haaaaaw!
2 - Yipeeeeee!
3 - Pretty good.
4 - Things could be much worse.
5 - So-so.
6 - Things could be a bit worse... I guess... maybe...
7 - There's a light at the end of the tunnel... the very long, dark tunnel, I think... but it's dim... It might be a mirage...
8 - Everything sucks.
9 - Slugs and plankton have it so damn easy. I hate them.
10 - Why can't I be in a coma?

lol juliana....ill order a number 10 with maybe a 9 on the side ( the whole slugs and plankton expression is great...since i just alittle bit ago compared myself to a leach) and maybe number 7 to drink.....

LOL. I'm actually a 4 today. No plankton-envy going on right now. I hope it lasts.

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I just need a quiz with one question:

How craptacular do you feel on a scale of 1 to 10?

1 - Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Yeeeee-Haaaaaw!
2 - Yipeeeeee!
3 - Pretty good.
4 - Things could be much worse.
5 - So-so.
6 - Things could be a bit worse... I guess... maybe...
7 - There's a light at the end of the tunnel... the very long, dark tunnel, I think... but it's dim... It might be a mirage...
8 - Everything sucks.
9 - Slugs and plankton have it so damn easy. I hate them.
10 - Why can't I be in a coma?

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I want to see that question on a questionnaire. Rate people on whether or not they find it amusing at the same time. haha. Good one

sigh.... my score was 160. Maybe I was "exaggerating" in some areas. I didn't think so though. Sigh.

Great. Just wonderful.

I think craptacular is a great word. lol.

I also do not think I need a scale to tell me that I feel like crap and if I am not feeling craptacular..I do not need a hint that I might be leaning in that direction...

But.... this is is just a personal perspective. This works for some and so be it. It also helps professionals know what they are dealing with on a more expeditious manner. Wala. So it does have a purpose.

I took it again and it was quite a bit lower....I'm also feeling a bit less craptacular than I was earlier today when I took the quiz......I think there are a lot of fuzzy grey areas in all quizzes like this....

I think the "real" answer is somewhere in between. I'll take it again tomorrow, more carefully and slowly

Juliana, I like your quiz. Today I'd be kind of a 6. No, make that an 8. Hmmm... Let me think a little more about it.

I'd be 9.... no 7....... no 9

It's too much pressure, Fuzz. The level of your, my ,our sanity being determined by a seemingly simple set of questions. It lulls you into a false sence of security until, Zappo! You get a high score and it tells you that you're insane!!!!!! Ohhhhhhh NOOOOOOOOO!!!
(((((((Fuzzy))))))))) Must take the quiz over again. Must be sane.
Fuzz, if you're insane then I want to go along for the ride, okay? You're fine. It probably fluctuates day to day anyway like someone else had suggested. Don't worry about it.

Thanks ((((((((((((( Jax ))))))))))))

I was pretty shocked by my score!

I don't think a quiz like that can determine somebody's sanity- it's probably a quiz like one of those, "If you were a car-what kind of a car would you be?", quizzes.

I would say that the craptacular must have some scientific backing

I guess I'm not as messed up as I thought.

Wow! I didn't know that was possible. Way to go!

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