And there's nothing you can do...

[chess]

Okay. So why am I *surprised* that I'm in a lousy mood?

It's not that lousy, I'm just a little, uhm, 'highly strung'. Which means I'm rather defensive, annoyed by just about everything, have completely random and often self-destructive impulses, and generally want to tear things into itty bitty pieces. It's not bad enough that I *will*, but it's an annoying undertone. The enforced blankness that's sitting on top of it is getting to me, too.

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[senji.livejournal.com]

There's something in the air I think, probably the rain... :(

[tienelle.livejournal.com]

That test looks to be a little trigger-happy. I took it with my "normal" hat on, and it *still* thought I was probably depressed. I'm also a lot sceptical of using net quizzes for psychology.

[edith-the-hutt.livejournal.com]

You too. Then again, it's a screening test. They're loaded towards false positives to make sure they catch everyone who needs treatment. I think pretty much everybody I know (with about 2 exceptions) would probably get a "Go see a psycologist" result. Then again I wouldn't be surprised if pretty much everybody I know (with maybe one or two more exceptions than before, but really not that many) has been to see a psycologist at some point, it seems to be a pretty common thing around here.

[theinquisitor.livejournal.com]

The 'for more than two weeks' bit left me honestly answering 'never' to all of them, I think. Assuming it means 'more or less consistently, for two weeks'. Ack, whatever, I know I'm not depressed, anyway.

As for seeing a psycologist, common it is, but I've never seen one except at secondary school - and I suspect that was on behavioural/fitting-in grounds, rather than anything mental. (She wasn't technically a psycologist, I think - just a learning support person with some extra certificates).

[ptc24.livejournal.com]

I tried putting "Sometimes" in for every category, and that was enough to trigger a "probably".

It would be interesting to see what the people think the answers from a "normal" person would be.

[jarel.livejournal.com]

Not sure I count as 'normal', but it tells me "Your answers does not reflect the presence of depressive symptoms", which (apart from the appalling grammar) is probably fair ;)

[tienelle.livejournal.com]

I went for BBCBAEAAAA (this is "me with normal hat", rather than "normal person"), and they thought I was depressive. Question 6 has truly *horrible* grammar.

[chess]

I'm not depressed; I know what 'depressed' feels like, and this isn't it.

[tienelle.livejournal.com]

Ick. May I ask why you're enforcing blankness on top of it?

[chess]

Because hurting people is bad for me.

[ptc24.livejournal.com]

It might be worth being careful with this. For people like me, conflict-avoidance has a nasty way of turning into passive-agressive behaviour which causes doom and is a nightmare to deal with. However, my experience may not be universal...

[chess]

Hurting people as in actually physically attacking them. When I'm in one of those moods, hurting people in other ways is pretty much inevitable, really.

[ptc24.livejournal.com]

Ah. In that case stopping short of actual physical damage is probably a good idea. I'd misread what you'd meant...

[phamster.livejournal.com]

A4 paper is almost definately the answer. Find an old file of some really important piece of work. Print it... then tear it to itty bitty pieces. You feel better because you've destroyed something arguably important, but you don't actually suffer any backlash.

[chess]

Destroying things doesn't actually help. It just makes me even more frustrated and want to destroy more things.