What kind of mental disorder do you have? (Part 1/10)

A popular feature on weblogs are surveys. "Which Friends' character are you?", that kind of stuff. I don't really like those.

Another kind of survey I don't like but was confronted with a lot recently are the kind that therapists give their patients to determine their generel... gee, I don't know... somethingorother. They give you a list of either yes-or-no or 'rate this on a scale of -5 to 5' questions to determine if you're depressed, phobic, agressive, paranoid or insecure. (I am all of those things.)

And now that it looks like the reason I am like that is ADD, I get surveys for that, as well. This one has 100 questions and the very scientific "the more questions you answer positive, the more likely it is that you might have ADD".

I'm going to answer the survey ten questions at a time for this weblog. If I feel I should comment on a question (or an answer) I will do so.


1. Are you left-handed or ambidexter? Yes. I write with my left hand, but I do other stuff with my right that regular lefties don't.

2. Are there cases of substance abuse, alcoholism, depression or manic depression in your family? I'm gonna say yes to that. Although probably no one is aware of it or would admit it.

3. Do you have mood swings? Yes.

4. Were you considered an underachiever in school? Now? Yes. Inefficient and counter-productive. Now? I do think so.

5. Do you find it difficult to start things? Oh so very much yes. I would say this is one of my most serious problems.

6. Do you drum your fingers a lot, tap your feet, fidget, or pace? I am doing all of these things right now. So that's a yes.

7. When you read, do you find that you often have to reread a paragraph or an entire page because you are daydreaming? Yes. That's one reason why I haven't read the book that the good doctor told me to read three weeks ago. (And where this survey is from.)

8. Do you tune out or space out a lot? Not alcohol-related? No. Pretty sure about that.

9. Do you have a hard time relaxing? Sometimes. Probably not often enough to answer this with yes.

10. Are you excessively impatient?. No.


The score so far: 7/10