After talking for a while he told me I definitely had compulsive traits, but he thought the reason they were really coming out now is my constant state of stress...and seriously "constant state of stress" couldn't describe my past few months any better. He told me if I figured a way to take some time for myself and tried to remove the things that really stress me out from my life, things would probably get a lot better....but he also gave me information on all the tests.
He went through 3 or 4 different tests giving me the details and price of each one. The first one was like 60% accurate and $100, the second was 75% and $250, and the third, the Rorschach Test is $500 and over 85% accurate. I know this all seems irrelevant, but when he was telling me the history of and how the Rorshach worked I was really fascinated. So much that I kept bringing it back up asking questions. If you don't know what the Rorschach is, it's the inkblot test. I'm sure everyone has seen it on TV or a movie at some point, but it turns out that the ones we see on TV or the movies are all just random inkblots and not actually the test. The actual pictures that are used during the test are confidential. No one is allowed to have access to them or any of their meanings. They gathered the meanings and interpretations by doing tons of studies on both "normal" people and people suffering from personality and mental disorders. When all people with schizophrenia responded the same way and all the manically depressed responded in a different (but alike within their group) way they started using these as guidelines for testing people.
This doctor does a lot of legal work also and told me that the court systems almost always used that test. He told me after he was trained he thought it would be fun to try it out on his wife, but had to stop in the middle of it because he was finding out things he didn't want to know. This test is supposedly one of the best ways for doctors to figure out what's really going on with you without you actually having to come right out and say it.
I'm definitely not going to take it. One, because he told me I don't need any type of testing and 2 because I'm not so sure it makes sense to pay $500 to let someone figure out your deepest, darkest secrets.
....so I woke up at 4 and couldn't go back to sleep and started reading online about the test and it's history. Which inspired me to tell everyone else about. I know it's kind of hard to imagine how you could judge a person by how they respond to a picture, but for some reason the whole thought of it is really interesting to me.
what do you see?! haha
