take the personality test.

[pete02]

Paranoid |||||| 22% 49%
Schizoid |||||||||||| 42% 53%
Schizotypal |||||| 22% 53%
Antisocial |||||| 30% 47%
Borderline |||||| 22% 47%
Histrionic |||||| 26% 43%
Narcissistic |||||| 30% 41%
Avoidant |||||| 22% 39%
Dependent |||||||||| 38% 37%
Obsessive-Compulsive |||||||||||||| 58% 40%

Schizoid Personality Disorder - individual generally detached from social relationships, and shows a narrow range of emotional expression in various social settings.

I used to like social gatherings but kinda grew outta that.

Dependent Personality Disorder - individual shows an extreme need to be taken care of that leads to fears of separation, and passive and clinging behavior.

I'm pretty sure this one comes from my first relationship. I was 16 and she was 21 and unfortunately wasn't at all what she appeared to be and ended up hurting me a lot. I'm sure theres still something hidden in my closet on this one.

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder - individual is preoccupied with orderliness, perfectionism, and control at the expense of flexibility, openness, and efficiency.

I always knew I had a lil OCD in me!

 

[ana]

Is it not possible in his mind that some of the most intelligent people in history had trouble functioning on an emotional level? The author is assuming cause and effect here. That is to say that emotional detachment goes hand in hand with intelligence and therefore is not a type of disorder. My brother and I have both been given intelligence tests and are right around the 135-140 range. I have never had trouble making friends or getting along socially (though I've had my share of problems) and he has always been socially awkward. Being smarter than average does not exempt you from possible personality flaws/pathology. I'd venture to say there are a great number of intelligent psychopaths. In fact, this is exactly how they often trick us, is it not?

Yes I do agree, intelligence doesn’t exempt someone of pathology, as I see it Gestalt’s view of organismic self-regulation and awareness continuum (Gurdjieff similar) is a good approach of a healthy being.

_http://www.gestalt.org/yontef.htm

Organismic Self-Regulation
Human regulation is to varying degrees either (a) organismic, that is, based on a relatively full and accurate acknowledgment of what is, or (b) "shouldistic," based on the arbitrary imposition of what some controller thinks should or should not be. This applies to intrapsychic regulation, to the regulation of interpersonal relations and to the regulation of social groups.
In organismic self-regulation, choosing and learning happen holistically, with a natural integration of mind and body, thought and feeling, spontaneity and deliberateness. In shouldistic regulation, cognition reigns and there is no felt, holistic sense.
Obviously, everything relevant to boundary regulation cannot be in full awareness. Most transactions are handled by automatic, habitual modes, with minimal awareness. Organismic self-regulation requires that the habitual become fully aware as needed..


Awareness
Awareness and dialogue are the two primary therapeutic tools in Gestalt therapy. Awareness is a form of experience that may be loosely defined as being in touch with one's own existence, with what is.

The aim of Gestalt therapy is the awareness continuum, the freely ongoing Gestalt formation where what is of greatest concern and interest to the organism, the relationship, the group or society becomes Gestalt, comes into the foreground where it can be fully experienced and coped with (acknowledged, worked through, sorted out, changed, disposed of, etc.) so that then it can melt into the background (be forgotten or assimilated and integrated) and leave the foreground free for the next relevant Gestalt. (1973, p. 2)
Full awareness is the process of being in vigilant contact with the most important events in the individual/environment field with full sensorimotor, emotional, cognitive and energetic support. Insight, a form of awareness, is an immediate grasp of the obvious unity of disparate elements in the field. Aware contact creates new, meaningful wholes and thus is in itself an integration of a problem.

Effective awareness is grounded in and energized by the dominant present need of the organism. It involves not only self-knowledge, but a direct knowing of the current situation and how the self is in that situation. Any denial of the situation and its demands or of one's wants and chosen response is a disturbance of awareness. Meaningful awareness is of a self in the world, in dialogue with the world, and with awareness of Other -- it is not an inwardly focused introspection. Awareness is accompanied by owning, that is, the process of knowing one's control over, choice of, and responsibility for one's own behavior and feelings. Without this, the person may be vigilant to experience and life space, but not to what power he or she has and does not have. Awareness is cognitive, sensory and affective. The person who verbally acknowledges his situation but does not really see it, know it, react to it and feel in response to it is not fully aware and is not in full contact. The person who is aware knows what he does, how he does it, that he has alternatives and that he chooses to be as he is.

 

[clerck de bonk]

Paranoid |||||||||| 38% 49%
Schizoid |||||||||||| 42% 53%
Schizotypal |||||||||||||| 54% 53%
Antisocial |||||||||||| 42% 47%
Borderline |||||| 30% 47%
Histrionic |||||| 22% 43%
Narcissistic |||||||||| 38% 41%
Avoidant |||||| 26% 39%
Dependent |||||| 26% 37%
Obsessive-Compulsive |||| 18% 40%

I got pickled

 

[JonnyRadar]

... joining the ranks of the schizoids

Paranoid |||||| 22% 49%
Schizoid |||||||||||||||||| 74% 53%
Schizotypal |||||||||||||||||| 74% 53%
Antisocial |||| 18% 47%
Borderline |||||||||||| 42% 47%
Histrionic || 10% 43%
Narcissistic |||||| 22% 41%
Avoidant |||| 14% 39%
Dependent |||||| 22% 37%
Obsessive-Compulsive |||||||||||| 42% 40%

and i really like question #28:

[quote author=personality test]28) I am weird.[/quote]

 

[anya]

Paranoid |||||||||| 34% 49%
Schizoid |||||||||||| 50% 53%
Schizotypal |||||||||||||| 54% 53%
Antisocial |||||| 22% 47%
Borderline |||||| 26% 47%
Histrionic |||||| 26% 43%
Narcissistic |||||||||||| 46% 41%
Avoidant |||| 18% 39%
Dependent |||||| 22% 37%
Obsessive-Compulsive |||||||||||||| 54% 40

Ok That was fun. A little schizoid, a litle OCD.

 

[Cyre2067]

Paranoid || 10% 49%
Schizoid |||||||||||| 46% 53%
Schizotypal |||||||||||||| 54% 53%
Antisocial |||||||||| 38% 47%
Borderline |||| 18% 47%
Histrionic || 10% 43%
Narcissistic |||||||||||| 46% 41%
Avoidant || 10% 39%
Dependent |||||| 26% 37%
Obsessive-Compulsive |||||| 26% 40%

Funny test. Interesting questions. Not sure how much stock I'd put into the results though.

 

[Renaissance]

Paranoid |||| 18%
Schizoid |||||||||||||||| 62%
Schizotypal |||||||||||||||||||| 82%
Antisocial |||||| 30%
Borderline |||||||||||| 46%
Histrionic |||||| 22%
Narcissistic |||||||||||| 42%
Avoidant |||||||||||| 50%
Dependent |||||| 26%
Obsessive-Compulsive |||||| 30%

 

[Lauranimal]

Paranoid |||||||||||||||| 62% 49%
Schizoid |||||||||||||| 58% 53%
Schizotypal|||||||||||||||| 66% 53%
Antisocial |||||||||||||| 54% 47%
Borderline |||||||||||||| 54% 47%
Histrionic |||||||||||| 42% 43%
Narcissistic |||||| 30% 41%
Avoidant |||||||||||||| 58% 39%
Dependent |||||||||| 34% 37%
Obsessive-Compulsive |||||| 30% 40%

If each number represented a letter I wonder what this would spell.
Or if each number represented a musical note, would the tune be uplifting? sinister? sad? adventurous? Kinda like the name anagram thingy.

 

[TheSpoon]

Paranoid             ||||||         30% 49% 
Schizoid             ||||||||||     38% 53% 
Schizotypal          |||||||||||||| 58% 53% 
Antisocial           ||||||||||     38% 47% 
Borderline           ||||||||||     34% 47% 
Histrionic           |||||||||||||| 58% 43% 
Narcissistic         ||||||||||||   42% 41% 
Avoidant             ||||||||||     38% 39% 
Dependent            ||||||||||     38% 37% 
Obsessive-Compulsive ||||||         30% 40%

Histrionic?!? WAAAAA!

I got Schizotypal because I admitted having 'odd beliefs'. But I tend to keep my thoughts about hyperdimensional realities to myself in discussion with health care professionals.

Thought I'd score higher for Narcissism though. Nice to see a 42 in there...

EDIT Peam (below) - good point. I also realised that I was running a fairly British program of "not voicing too strong an opinion" when I did a first pass, so I was avoiding the Very Accurate/Inaccurate buttons. Ran again this time without avoiding the "very" buttons and not admitting to having strange beliefs.

Paranoid             ||||||          22%  49%
Schizoid             ||||||||||      38%  53%
Schizotypal          ||||||||||||||  54%  53%
Antisocial           ||||||          30%  47%
Borderline           ||||||||||      38%  47%
Histrionic           ||||||||||||||  54%  43%
Narcissistic         ||||||||||||||  54%  41%
Avoidant             ||||            18%  39%
Dependent            ||||||          22%  37%
Obsessive-Compulsive ||||||          26%  40%

 

[Peam]

I got Schizotypal because I admitted having 'odd beliefs'. But I tend to keep my thoughts about hyperdimensional realities to myself in discussion with health care professionals.

What’s more odd, thoughts of hyper dimensional realities or an irrational belief in one all powerful god as taught in religions?
So I didn’t put that I had ‘odd beliefs’. :P

edit: I still got 34% Schizotypal though.

 

[alphonse]

Paranoid |||| 14% 49%
Schizoid |||||| 30% 53%
Schizotypal |||||| 22% 53%
Antisocial |||||||||||| 50% 47%
Borderline |||||| 30% 47%
Histrionic |||||||||| 34% 43%
Narcissistic |||||||||| 34% 41%
Avoidant |||| 14% 39%
Dependent |||||||||||| 50% 37%
Obsessive-Compulsive |||||||||| 38% 40%

Wow! I seem to very dependent. Maybe I need someone to help me with that ;)

 

[knowledge_of_self]

That was entertaining!

Paranoid |||||||||||||| 58%
Schizoid |||||||||||| 50%
Schizotypal |||||||||||| 42%
Antisocial |||| 18%
Borderline |||| 14%
Histrionic |||||||||| 38%
Narcissistic |||||||||||| 46%
Avoidant |||||| 30%
Dependent |||||||||| 34%
Obsessive-Compulsive |||||||||||||| 54%

Schizoid Personality Disorder - individual generally detached from social relationships, and shows a narrow range of emotional expression in various social settings.

I used to like social gatherings but kinda grew outta that.

Same here.

Also, I have a pretty strong friendship/'be nice' program, therefore I have had many people take advantage of me and have gotten into many feeding dynamic relationships. So I'm always watching for those programs and by the definition of this test I'm pretty schizoid and paranoid, but I doubt this test results are considering strategic enclosure

Also, I lol'd for being diagnosed on this with OCD. Because I'm actually really messy (like my room) but my computer is pretty clean and my school work is always neatly filed in my binder. But my desk is a mess lol... I'm just odd so i guess 54 % OCD is actually accurate

 

[clerck de bonk]

Also, I have a pretty strong friendship/'be nice' program, therefore I have had many people take advantage of me and have gotten into many feeding dynamic relationships. So I'm always watching for those programs and by the definition of this test I'm pretty schizoid and paranoid, but I doubt this test results are considering strategic enclosure

Question:
How would someone in the same situation, without Your knowledge of reality take to(understand) this test(or others like it), could it be that they would try even harder to 'make nice'?

 

[Laura]

I found it quite good for a very general overiew. Now lets see if some of the mods will give it a go....

I don't think it is even remotely accurate because how can you assign a classification of "personality disorder" to what are basically normal human traits? It only becomes a personality disorder if it is a pervasive and unchanging way of dealing with the world that causes problems for the individual and others.

Having said that, here's what I got:

Paranoid |||| 14% 49%
Schizoid |||||||||| 38% 53%
Schizotypal |||||| 26% 53%
Antisocial |||||||||| 34% 47%
Borderline |||||| 22% 47%
Histrionic |||| 18% 43%
Narcissistic |||||||||| 38% 41%
Avoidant |||| 14% 39%
Dependent || 10% 37%
Obsessive-Compulsive |||||| 26% 40%


Ya'll might try some experiments with the test like answering "no" to all of them, or answering in the middle on all of them, or on the high end, just to see what happens.

 

[ana]

3) No matter how much attention I get, it's never enough.

Very Inaccurate ***** Very Accurate

This is a characteristic feature of an Histrionic personality disorder:

_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histrionic_personality_disorder

personality disorder characterized by a pattern of excessive emotionality and attention-seeking, including an excessive need for approval and inappropriate seductiveness

Someone with no traits of Histrionism is suposed to answer (very innacurate) because by no means he/she want others attention for its own needs.

17) I think I am a good role model.

Very Inaccurate ***** Very Accurate

This is a characteristic feature of Narcissistic personality disorder:

_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder

a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and a lack of empathy."[1]

Someone with no traits of Narcissistic personality disorder is suposed to answer (very innacurate) because empathy let him/her know the wonder of diversity in unity, he/she is only a part of this whole, him/her evolution is associated with the others and vice versa. In case of someone with advanced learning skills he/she give others tools respecting their free will, and knows to imitate does not mean to learn.



I am not saying this personality test is accurate because I think we need more evidence especially taking into account, that in most cases responses would depend on the emotional and mental state of the person, though I find the meaning to the questions as a function of personality disorder.