According to this website, I have Adult ADHD, anxiety, bipolar disorder, "mild to moderate" depression, an eating disorder "likely", and OCD.
Oh, and I need therapy.
Okay, I can understand the ADHD thing. Everyone has ADHD. And I can completely see the anxiety thing. (I'm the one who was up three hours last night during a thunderstorm, worried that it would spawn a tornado and kill everyone.) And the OCD is basically a given, considering my hand-washing obsession and perfectionism.
But bipolar disorder? So I just researched it. I go through cyclical "I hate everything" phases, but I think that's caused by BEING IN HIGH SCHOOL. And sleep deprivation. This slightly worries me though:
A series of authors have described mania or hypomania as being related to a high motivation to achieve, ambitious goal-setting, and sometimes high achievement. One study indicated that the pursuit of goals, encouraged by sometimes achieving them, can become emotionally dysregulated and involve the development of mania. Individuals may have low self-esteem and difficulties in social adjustment, however, and by definition there are periods of depression with difficulty in motivation and functioning.
SO WHAT IF I HAVE HIGH GOALS DON'T JUDGE ME. I'm a perfectionist - that falls more under "OCD" than bipolar disorder.
Just the category "mild to moderate" depression makes me sort of mad. Like they couldn't divide it up into two separate categories. "Mild to moderate" depression is the difference between "eh, I've been feeling really down lately..." to "I've been thinking about jumping off a bridge recently...".
And I don't have "mild" or "moderate" depression. I'M VERY HAPPY, OKAY?
And I don't have a stupid eating disorder either. I'm just a teen girl, which I think got me major points on their stupid scale.
Anyway, I'm pretty sure all these quizzes are designed to be as vague as possible. They were probably designed by psychologists or whoever it is that makes money when you schedule an appointment on the recommendation of those quizzes. Oh, capitalism.
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