Psychological Disorder Test - See (with questionable accuracy) how weird you are

[123savethewhales]

Here's my GUESS without taking the test

Paranoid   99%
Obsessive-Compulsive   99%
Narcissistic   Over 9000

Here's the actual test results.  I think the test is BS.  I am pretty sure I am a lot more Narcissistic than average.

Paranoid||||||||||||42%49%

Schizoid||||||||||||||||||74%53%

Schizotypal||||||||||||||||||||90%53%

Antisocial||||||||||||||||62%47%

Borderline||||||||||||42%47%

Histrionic||||||||||||||||66%43%

Narcissistic||||||||||||42%41%

Avoidant||||||||||38%39%

Dependent||||||||||34%37%

Obsessive-Compulsive||||||||||34%40%

[Reier]

Paranoid   ||||||||||   34%   49%
Schizoid   ||||||||||||   42%   53%
Schizotypal   ||||||||||||||||   62%   53%
Antisocial   ||||||||||||   50%   47%
Borderline   ||||||   30%   47%
Histrionic   ||||||||||||   46%   43%
Narcissistic   ||||||||||||   50%   41%
Avoidant   ||||||||||   34%   39%
Dependent   ||||||||||||||   54%   37%
Obsessive-Compulsive   ||||||||||||   50%   40%

Beats me...I dunno.

[Naryar]

I am pretty sure I am a lot more Narcissistic than average.

Oh, you are not the only one who is convinced of this...

Maybe they consider narcissism as having an OVERLY INFLATED opinion of yourself, and I know you're smart enough not to have.

[123savethewhales]

I am pretty sure I am a lot more Narcissistic than average.

Oh, you are not the only one who is convinced of this...

Maybe they consider narcissism as having an OVERLY INFLATED opinion of yourself, and I know you're smart enough not to have.

Here is the description from DSM4

A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:

(1)  has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)

(2)  is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love

(3)  believes that he or she is "special" and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions)

(4)  requires excessive admiration

(5)  has a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations

(6)  is interpersonally exploitative, i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends

(7)  lacks empathy:  is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others

(8)  is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her

(9)  shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes

I never know narcissism involves the lack of empathy.  How can someone both lack empathy and still be 6 (interpersonally exploitative) at the same time?

[Naryar]

Empathy is the capacity not to read people's emotions, or not even to understand them, but to (roughly) feel the same emotions as they do. AKA caring about their happiness and/or sadness, something I cannot do without valuable reason for example.

Lack of empathy => basically not caring for others => no more morality problems in your way when you want to manipulate people !

[123savethewhales]

Empathy is the capacity not to read people's emotions, or not even to understand them, but to (even if empathy is different from sympathy IIRC) with them and feel the same emotions as they do. AKA caring about their happiness and/or sadness, something I cannot do without valuable reason for example.

Lack of empathy => basically not caring for others => no more morality problems in your way when you want to manipulate people !

Empathy is understanding others feelings
Sympathy is caring for others feeling, after knowing about it

To manipulate someone successfully requires empathy.  A con man need to know what their victim is thinking to set them up.  He just don't have the sympathy to feel bad about it.

So while a lack of empathy will result in not caring, their ability to manipulate will also be nonexistent.

[Naryar]

Google says empathy is your sympathy.

[123savethewhales]

Well I was using this definition for empathy

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/empathy


EMPATHY
2
: the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner; also : the capacity for this

[Naryar]

Being aware of feelings in another is very different from experiencing these same feelings.

[123savethewhales]

Being aware of feelings in another is very different from experiencing these same feelings.

But more importantly, neither or them are direct link to "caring" about others, or sympathy.  A sadist for example might empathize with his victims and enjoys the pain he inflicts.

[Avalanche]

Paranoid	||||||||||	38%	49%
Schizoid	||||||||||||	46%	53%
Schizotypal	||||||	30%	53%
Antisocial	||||||||||||	42%	47%
Borderline	||||||||||	38%	47%
Histrionic	||||||||||	38%	43%
Narcisstic	||||||||||||||||	62%	41%
Avoidant	||||||||||||||	54%	39%
Dependent	||||||||||||	50%	37%
Obsessive-Compulsive(over average)	||||||||||||	46%	40%

[Hydro]

Paranoid	||||	18%	49%
Schizoid	||||||||||||||||	66%	53%
Schizotypal	||||||||||||||	58%	53%
Antisocial	||||||	26%	47%
Borderline	||||	18%	47%
Histrionic	||||||	22%	43%
Narcissistic	||||||	26%	41%
Avoidant	||||||||||	34%	39%
Dependent	||||	14%	37%
Obsessive-Compulsive	||||||	22%	40%

[090901]

Paranoid||||||||||||||||||74%49% Schizoid||||||||||||||||||74%53% Schizotypal||||||||||||50%53% Antisocial||||||||||||42%47% Borderline||||||||||||||58%47% Histrionic||||||||||||||58%43% Narcissistic||||||26%41% Avoidant||||||||||||42%39% Dependent||||||||||34%37% Obsessive-Compulsive||||||||||||42%40%

[Larrain]

Paranoid

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18%

49%

Now we're three.