Have you ever been diagnosed with depression?

[garbon]

I think you took that before and also showed up high in those two areas.

[Martinus]

I think you took that before and also showed up high in those two areas.

There is also a depression test there. I got:

Disorder Your Score
Major Depression: Very Slight
Dysthymia: Very Slight
Bipolar Disorder: Very Slight
Cyclothymia: Slight
Seasonal Affective Disorder: Slight
Postpartum Depression: N/A

[Razgovory]

I think Raz is confusing a sociopath with a psychopath.  Psychopaths are the ones who have very little self-control and often explode with rage.  Sociopaths OTOH have an unusual amount of self-control.

Does the DSM make a distinction?

I don't think so.   I thought Psychopathy was an older term.

[Caliga]

Does the DSM make a distinction?

I don't remember.  I have read the DSM-IV (my mother has all that stuff on account of her job), but that was years ago.

[Caliga]

I don't think so.   I thought Psychopathy was an older term.

I want to say they were grouped in with Antisocial Personality Disorder, but again not entirely sure.

[Caliga]

Paranoid:  Low
Schizoid:  High
Schizotypal:  Low
Antisocial:  Low
Borderline:  Low
Histrionic:  Low
Narcissistic:  High
Avoidant:  Low
Dependent:  Low
Obsessive-Compulsive:  Moderate

[Caliga]

Major Depression: Very Slight
Dysthymia: Very Slight
Bipolar Disorder: Very Slight
Cyclothymia: Very Slight
Seasonal Affective Disorder: Slight
Postpartum Depression: N/A

Winter SUCKS.

Otherwise, I'm an excellent person.

[Razgovory]

Paranoid:  Low
Schizoid:  High
Schizotypal:  Low
Antisocial:  Low
Borderline:  Low
Histrionic:  Low
Narcissistic:  High
Avoidant:  Low
Dependent:  Low
Obsessive-Compulsive:  Moderate

Yeah, that's not very scientific I don't think.  It does have rewording of questions and different shading, like a real test, but I doubt it has the mechanisms to properly calculate it.

[garbon]

I don't think so.   I thought Psychopathy was an older term.

I want to say they were grouped in with Antisocial Personality Disorder, but again not entirely sure.

I think they have both been subsumed by it.

[Caliga]

I think they have both been subsumed by it.

It seems strange to not differentiate between the two.   Maybe they were finding that most individuals who exhibit one also exhibit some degree of the other so it became a spectrum disorder?

[Caliga]

Yeah, that's not very scientific I don't think.  It does have rewording of questions and different shading, like a real test, but I doubt it has the mechanisms to properly calculate it.

The one that surprised me is the schizoid finding.  I don't have strange thoughts IMO.

The narcissist one isn't surprising... I don't think I have narcissism, but I do have high self-esteem and a large degree of self-confidence, and in a test that short it's probably hard to separate those individuals from the true narcissists.

[Razgovory]

I think they have both been subsumed by it.

It seems strange to not differentiate between the two.   Maybe they were finding that most individuals who exhibit one also exhibit some degree of the other so it became a spectrum disorder?

This isn't really an exact science unfortunately.

[Eddie Teach]

Major Depression: High-Moderate
Dysthymia: High
Bipolar Disorder: Slight
Cyclothymia: Moderate
Seasonal Affective Disorder: High
Postpartum Depression: N/A

Also I'm apparently schizotypal and avoidant.

[Razgovory]

Also I'm apparently schizotypal and avoidant.

They overlap quite a bit.  Though I wouldn't take this test to the bank, other things you've said could suggest a like this.

[Barrister]

My life right now - definitely not depressing.

One does not need to be in a depressing situation in order to be depressed.

I don't think I was implying that.