Posted by Dinah on February 1, 2002, at 1:12:51
In reply to Re: I hate my GAF and want to die, posted by trouble on February 1, 2002, at 0:10:35
> Hey Dinah,
>
> Lately when stressed and castastrophizing I've noticed myself wondering "WHAT WOULD DINAH DO?"
> What comes to mind is something along the lines of
>
> "Turn it down a notch, pop in a Nat King Cole cd and access your left brain. You do have a left brain you know."
>
> What do you think?
>
I like that very much. :) Sounds just like me. But I didn't realize it came across so much in my posts. I was aiming for warm and empathetic.
The psychologist who wrote up my report was a determinedly chipper little thing who refused to put in anything negative. I of course had looked up all the tests I took and knew something about them. I wormed out of her the elevated scales, but she wouldn't give the exact numbers. That infuriated me, since it was after all my test and my results. So I reconstructed the MMPI, scoring protocols and all from textbooks, and gave myself the test. And came up with the same elevations she had told me. I'm not sure why she wouldn't give me the scores. They weren't all that elevated.
So I'm a 2-7-8 with a high 0 (for introverted). Which means that I'm ruminative, intellectualizing, tend to fall apart over any little problem, perfectionistic, obsessed with esoteric ideas, anxious, with suicidal ideation, and convinced of my basic sinfulness. Among other things. That's me all right.
But my most interesting psychological report came when I was 11 or 12. I was "borderline psychotic" and "must be tended to immediately." Which goes to show you that you can't take those reports too seriously. I was just an anxious and suicidally depressed little girl, with some OCD thrown in. And sometimes when you're convinced everyone is out to get you, you're not borderline psychotic, you're right. (I was the little girl everyone picked on in school).
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