[mandabunny]

When answering the questions, should I be answering them as if I wasn't on medication? I answered them kind of weird because I'm on medication but I'm so used to answering them a certain way when I was off medication.

[Skeezyks]

Hm-m-m-m... well... this is a good question. But, unfortunately, I don't know the answer. Perhaps another member, who has some thoughts with regard to this, will yet see your post & reply.

I recall I had sort-of a similar situation a few years ago now with regard to a test my therapist, at the time, gave me. There were a lot of questions about how I related with family & friends. Well... I basically don't have either one. So I just ended up answering based on how I imagined I would handle the situations. But it left me feeling as though the whole test was kind-of pointless.

I had that situation with my pdoc once, when I had to fill in the BDI (Beck Depression Inventory) weekly. Among other things, it asked about how I slept. I had just started on new sleeping medication and I was sleeping better, but I wasn't sure about how to answer the question - yeah, I wasn't sleeping extremely bad anymore, but that was because of the medication.
Pdoc said: fill them in how it is now, meaning, with medication.

It sort of makes sense: if you're depressed and you score very low (or high, not sure whether high was good or low was good) on the BDI, and then you get medication and you're not depressed anymore, it doesn't make sense to score as though you are, right?

Also - it has been impressed upon me that you should not answer questions the way you always have if you're not still exactly that way - it sort of defeats the purpose of the whole test. Most tests, including the Sanity Score I think, say: "Answer these questions about how you have been the last 2 (or 4, depending on the test) weeks". So no, don't answer the questions thinking about how you were before medication, answer them about how you are now.
The tests are designed to give you a score about how you are doing now. They are not to measure how bad you've been in the past, or how severe your lowest point was.

Take care.