Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Online Personality Tests

My friend sent me a link to a a site that has dozens of personality tests. Some serious some wacky.

She sent me one to take that had over 200 questions. I don't know about that thing. It said I wasn't emotionally healthy and some other things. I didn't take it seriously and I'm certainly not going to use it to measure how far I've come.

The other she asked me to take was a personality disorder test. That test was 55 questions long. She asked me if my answers deviated from the average percentages of most respondents. Well, it did in some areas. I think two or three were slightly higher and two or three were way lower. I didn't take this test seriously either. They are too brief and too generic to get an accurate measure of anything. However my friend took it very seriously.

She is in a space where she's constantly insecure. She's uncertain of everything in her life. She is seeking an explanation of something. I'm not sure what, but she is seeking. I often listen to her when we're talking. Not just her words but the timbre of her voice and the cadence. She is very insecure. She wants something to define her, give her life meaning. She doesn't want to be crazy. I think that's a real fear for her. I think it's such a fear for her that she will do everything in her power to convince herself and everyone else she's not crazy.

I don't know what will happen to her.