Too Sane for the Sanity Score?

I've done a handful of sanity scores over the past year and each time I come up with a score in the upper 40s or low 50s. Obviously I'm pretty high-functioning and most of my scores indicate my only main issue is an addiction to technology. Which, okay, yeah, I admit it.

I want to explore the idea that I might be too sane for the Sanity Score. Maybe I've been faking my scores somehow? Or do I fit into a different scoring spectrum? For example, I know my score is skewed because I don't have any issues regarding drugs, cigarettes, gambling, or romantic/sexual relationships.

Here are my scores from this semester in college.

10 Sept: 47
Serious concern: technology issues
Milder concerns: general coping, life events, dissociation, mania, borderline traits

7 Nov: 42 (lowest score ever btw)
Serious concern: technology issues
Milder concerns: general coping, borderline traits
I can't see this as being very accurate because this was when things were starting to go really downhill for this semester, where the downward slope became steeper. I will say, though, that my self-esteem was still intact.

7 Dec: 53
Serious concern: technology issues
Milder concerns: general coping, depression, mania, obsessions/compulsions, borderline traits
I took this one as a tool when I was writing my reflection for the end of the semester. I knew things were going down the toilet, and I was actually expecting a higher score than this. I guess I was... disappointed? ...that the shift in score didn't accurately reflect the shift I perceived in my emotional health? If I could post that reflection here I would, but there are too many details and it's too long (six pages on MS Word single-spaced) and personal. But it would help explain so much.

11 Dec: 59
Serious concern: technology issues
Milder concerns: general coping, depression, mania, obsessions/compulsions, borderline traits
Basically these were augmented scores of the 7 Dec test, which shouldn't be a surprise since the same things are still going on, only today they were worse. I was reflecting on a very dark place in which I found myself earlier today.

Warning: over-explaining below
(Does not actually contain triggers. Probably.)


So basically my scores should probably be lower.

Something I should keep in mind is that this is a sanity score, not an emotional health quotient. It's a tool for me to keep track of symptoms over time to track and figure out if maybe I have an actual psychological and/or neurological disorder. It's not for just when I'm feeling sad or happy or whatever.

One thing I use to gauge how much stress I've been under is how many sudoku puzzles I've completed. Since October I've done more than 100 of the hard puzzles on this app. I'd say that's pretty telling. I'm going to have to find and download a new app if I keep this up.

I actually just completed the sanity quiz, and I got a 39. I guess my mental health is considerably more stable than I thought!

I miss a lot of questions in there, LOL.

Like, Are you OK with spending all your waking hours closely connected to electronics? Would you feel bad if someone unplugged you?

It only asks if I am displeased with my own addiction basically, and nope I'm not.

Also I think it understates the feelings one has about suicide. Thinking about it all the time and yet having a kind of stable life, you are seen as totally sane, I feel as that one should weigh heavier than other questions.

The question about if one feels out of control. I never even understand that one. Maybe I do feel out of control and I don't even know it?

It only asks about relationship issues if you are in a relationship. But some people suffer because they are not, and they want to be. Some people also have many failed relationships behind them but that isn't asked about either.

If it would start to ask me things in my own problem areas I'd be seen as batcrap crazy.

Do you feel you have a good grip on organizing your spaces and home?
Do you have a good sense of time, when something happened in the past and will happen in the future?
Are you bothered by change, noise and other EXTREMELY ANNOYING THINGS THAT MAKES YOU WANT TO SCREAM???? (lol)
Are you avoiding tasks because your brain shuts off when it gets hard or boring and you can't turn it back on by will?
Do you have a terrible time with initiating behavior without a prompt?
Do you feel disconnected from other people, to the point where you feel they are a different species?
Do you try to connect to this strange species just to have hurtful experiences?
Do you feel the reason you don't like your own looks is that you are a gender you don't recognize?
If possible, would you leave this existence and live in the world inside your head?
Are you still extremely bothered by your physical illness even if you had it for years on end? (What? Can it bother you even if it is not new?)
Have you ever thought of leaving society and become a hermit?

LOL. Kind of.

My answers to these because why not. :P
Depends on how bored I am and how much I don't want to be doing something else that's more important.
I'd like to think so?
I like novelty (but not necessarily change) but sometimes it just needs to stop. The only time I really feel like screaming is when dealing with obnoxious extended family.
YES YES OHMIGOD YES THIS IS MY ENTIRE LIFE RIGHT HERE
I don't understand this question.
I have in the past, and I do now as well, but not nearly as strongly.
What is this asking? "Do I communicate with this species with sole intent to experience hurtful consequences" or "are hurtful consequences merely an unwanted by-product of my communication with them?" If it's the first, no. If it's the second, ....mostly no.
Nope. I don't care to make gender an important part of my identity (though if I were forced to answer I'd say cis female).
I've been severely tempted, mostly when I fail at important things in the real world and then go on a dramatic rampage of "life sucks I suck I'm so useless can I just hide in a corner". And also because I can fly in many of my dreams. :P
I don't have a physical illness (that I'm aware of).
I have. Then I realized that I'd have to actually cook for myself full time and it loses most of its appeal.

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On a more serious note, I find it funny that this months old thread is suddenly being responded to, and it's nice (in a pseudo empathetic way) to know that I'm not the only one who has issues with the Sanity Score.

LOL missed the starting date on this thread.

But it seems you are sane in most aspects. Congrats!