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depression test

Disorder Your Score
Major Depression: High
Dysthymia: High-Moderate
Bipolar Disorder: Moderate
Cyclothymia: High
Seasonal Affective Disorder: Slight-Moderate
 
I scored high-moderate for bipolar disorder and Seasonal Affective Disorder.


I WAS diagnosed with bipolar disorder by 7 different doctors... but not Seasonal Affective... that would be my ninth mental diagnosis if it were true.
 
Mike said:
<table cellspacing="2" style="background: #000000;"><tr><th style="width: 200px; background: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold;">Disorder</th><th style="width: 120px; background: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold;">Your Score</th></tr><tr><td style="background: #ccddaa; padding: 3px;"><b><a href="http://www.depressedtest.com/major_depression.html" style="color: #000000;">Major Depression</a>:</b></td><td style="text-align: center; background: #ccddaa; padding: 3px; color: #000000;">High</td></tr><tr><td style="background: #eeeebb; padding: 3px;"><b><a href="http://www.depressedtest.com/dysthymia.html" style="color: #000000;">Dysthymia</a>:</b></td><td style="text-align: center; background: #eeeebb; padding: 3px; color: #000000;">High-Moderate</td></tr><tr><td style="background: #ccddaa; padding: 3px;"><b><a href="http://www.depressedtest.com/bipolar.html" style="color: #000000;">Bipolar Disorder</a>:</b></td><td style="text-align: center; background: #ccddaa; padding: 3px; color: #000000;">High</td></tr><tr><td style="background: #eeeebb; padding: 3px;"><b><a href="http://www.depressedtest.com/cyclothymia.html" style="color: #000000;">Cyclothymia</a>:</b></td><td style="text-align: center; background: #eeeebb; padding: 3px; color: #000000;">High-Moderate</td></tr><tr><td style="background: #ccddaa; padding: 3px;"><b><a href="http://www.depressedtest.com/sad.html" style="color: #000000;">Seasonal Affective Disorder</a>:</b></td><td style="text-align: center; background: #ccddaa; padding: 3px; color: #000000;">Slight-Moderate</td></tr><tr><td style="background: #eeeebb; padding: 3px;"><b><a href="http://www.depressedtest.com/postpartum.html" style="color: #000000;">Postpartum Depression</a>:</b></td><td style="text-align: center; background: #eeeebb; padding: 3px; color: #000000;">N/A</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center; background: #ccddaa; padding: 3px;"><b><a href="http://www.depressedtest.com/" style="color: #000000;">Take the Depression Test</a></td></tr></table>


beat my score
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:ball:
 
Gamers1700, play the ball not the man. This is a perfectly valid thread. Taking pot shots at every opportunity will solve nothing. If you have a problem with a post or a thread from someone, point out **politely** what you don't like about it, or report it to Chris or Willow. If you can stay polite and objective while others lose their cool, that means that you have won - at least that is how I have always played it with web forums.

I scored "moderate" on Dysthymia. Reading up on the condition, that sounds about right. I've always been a "glass half empty" kind of guy. I scored "slight" on the rest of them. I should be depressed, I've been out of work for over a year thanks to the GFC and the stupid market fundamentalists who caused it, so I should be depressed. But the only feeling I have on that is kind of like "meh" and an underlying anxiety that the light at the end of the tunnel may go out at any moment.

However, I don't think that a test like this can do a great job on diagnosing depression in someone with Aspergers or HFA, as there is obviously some crossover in symptoms that could lead to a misleading result.

I didn't know how to answer the stuff about seasons because we don't have any where I am, unless you count "Wet" and "Dry".

btw my results looked very similar to Mike's.
 
Tbh I was reacting on a post by him, but my point still stands. If he thinks you're wrong he'll go to all measures in the rules, but if he thinks you're right he'll not bother you. I can't stand that type of person.
*edit*
also, there's many opportunities that I have said nothing because someone else has stated my opinion.
*'nother edit*
oh, and I was a bit drunk lol
 
The results i taken for myself are wrong. I have been officially diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, paranoia and psychosis in 2009. i were diagnosed with clinical depression when i were 12 and adjustment disorder at age 18 as well as my autism and learning disabilities
 
142857 said:
Gamers1700, play the ball not the man. This is a perfectly valid thread. Taking pot shots at every opportunity will solve nothing. If you have a problem with a post or a thread from someone, point out **politely** what you don't like about it, or report it to Chris or Willow. If you can stay polite and objective while others lose their cool, that means that you have won - at least that is how I have always played it with web forums.
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+rep

gamers, I can see why you have a short fuse on benj, but please refrain from bringing it up. If he takes a stab at someone or something that does break the rules in a thread from now, go ahead and release the hounds. Until then... relax. :P

Sorry for the off-topic'ness in your thread, benj.

As for the test, I scored slight/very slight on all except SAD which was slight-moderate. I suspect I have SAD to be honest (minor).
 
Disorder Your Score
Major Depression: Moderate
Dysthymia: High
Bipolar Disorder: Very Slight
Cyclothymia: Slight
Seasonal Affective Disorder: Extremely High
 
i did mine again and this time didnt use the spazzy results:

Disorder Your Score
Major Depression: High
Dysthymia: High-Moderate
Bipolar Disorder: Moderate
Cyclothymia: High
Seasonal Affective Disorder: Slight-Moderate
 
I actually managed to get diagnosed through participating in a study of the emotional affects of autism, they screened me for autistic spectrum disorders as part of the study so I wouldn't have to pay for testing. I already knew I had depression, GAD, and OCD.
 
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I actually know what all of those are. *Proud*.
TBH, I took the test yesterday and the results were different.
'Think it depends more on how you're feeling today rather than over a certain period of time tbh.
I think dysthymia and maybe cyclothymia fit best. I have hypomanic stages every now and then where I'll do really stupid stuff and feel pretty euphoric, and actually want to talk to people. I also start laughing loads and talking to my self. The talking to myself doesn't stop though once the euphoric stage ends and I start being quite vocal about how much I hate my self.
Rofl.
EMZ=]
 
actually just to add to this, i think i may be the only one who hasn't had therapy or medication etc, i don't know, is there anyone else?
 
I've not had psychiatric medication, but I have for cold and st00f.
I had one therapy session but my Mum made me go and for bad social skills.
Also had speech therapy for like 5 years.
And some physiotherapy.
IDK if any of them count.
EMZ=]
EDIT: Also have to go to social skills support group thing every week at school. IDK if that counts as therapy.
 
I did a course of ritalin (20 tablets) one time when I was really struggling with my concentration. It does help, but I'm not sure if it is worth the side effects. I didn't need a diagnosis or anything like that because I live in the 3rd world, so it was just a case of asking a doctor to write me a prescription. Stimulants (like Ritalin) and sleeping pills are about the only drugs that you cannot simply buy over the counter in a lot of developing countries like Thailand and Indonesia.

I had speech therapy when I was a kid. Apart from that and the Ritalin, nothing.

Oh yeah, there was this one time (in my late 20s) that someone was convinced that I was being paranoid and took me to a psychiatrist, who prescribed a bunch of stuff including anti psychotics. I took one day worth of meds and realized that I wouldn't be able to function if I took them, so I stopped taking them. I was fine actually, just very depressed (it was around the first anniversary of my mother's death) and having problems with some a**holes at work - the problems were mostly related to my lack of people skills, but they were still a**holes. The woman who took me to the psych was married to a man who suffered serious delusions etc related to depression, and since he was the only person with severe depression that she knew she assumed that depression was affecting me the same way (it wasn't). The whole incident became a real positive turning point in my life, believe it or not.
 
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