Steinberg Depersonalization Test

[Poofycat]

I just scored a 44 and it freaked me out! PTSD is a new diagnosis for me so I'm still just trying to figure out what is going on, but this quiz just made me realize that I've been doing this kind of thing since I was a kid! I didn't even realize most of it was "not normal"! Mind blown.

 

[void]

I just scored a 44 and it freaked me out! PTSD is a new diagnosis for me so I'm still just trying to fi...

It is great to see the moment of new insight and the growth of greater self-awareness.:happy:
Many of us can relate as we discover the degree to which our abuse affected us...often in ways we did not realize.:wideeyed:

If you have questions about your new dx and new insights, many here will be glad to try to help you.:happy:

 

[Deleted member 20978]

35

Though, 25-75 seems like an awfully large percentile.

 

[Chava]

55 a couple months ago. 49 today. Not that I've changed, but just read it differently I guess. But fair to say, based on this one assessment, I've led a fairly dissociative life. But it doesn't freak the shit out of me because it's just what I know. I function. I go to work. I pay my bills. I take good care of my dog. I'm not a crazy person. I'm willing to stop believing I'm even totally f*cked up. I just have a very thick bubble that is useful, but also limiting. I'm starting to understand it better.

I just don't happen to have personal relationships that feel close at all, or that I invest in consistently. But I think that's due to a mix of my traits and deep patterns. I'm just trying to do a better job of showing up where I feel somewhat comfortable. I could isolate indefinitely and I know that's not so healthy, but I do let myself lead a mostly hermit life.

 

[seedling]

Today - 36. I did this when it was first posted, I think it was about the same.

I didn't think it would still be that high. A few years ago it used to be so much worse. It would have been more in the range of "all the time" for many of them. Now mostly "sometimes."

I'm suspicious that there is a large (?) part of me that is cut off and goes unrecognized. That I think I am feeling "all" of me but I'm not. I trained myself to ignore so much of myself when I was young.

 

[ms.mermaid]

How do normal people function without a running commentary in their head? I need to talk to some boringly normal people

This. I thought I had ADHD. I cant imagine a life without 5 ongoing conversations with myself happening internally and forgetting that I'm supposed to be somewhere.
My body does things for me, sometimes it's helpful, other times my body hurts itself because I'm off in thoughts, leaving it unattended. I suffer badly from picking my skin. My face and lips are often raw when I return to reality.

 

[TonyG]

Yippy 27

 

[Sandstone]

I've taken it several times and always come out somewhere in the 50s.Like many others, I thought a lot of these questions simply defined normal life. Then I asked OH to do it, and he only scored two questions above Never, one of which as looking in the mirror and not recognising the old man looking back. He scored a total of 15

How do we ever find out what normal looks and feels like?

 

[SoSadGuilty]

Err I got 31 and apparently I meet criteration for severe depersonalisation..... righto another thing to explore a bit more.

 

[Rosewater]

Down to 19 now, from 32 and 54 previously. Going in the right direction!

 

[Deleted member 28403]

39.... Hahaha, but I feel so normal

 

[void]

@Sandstone
Such a gr8 question!!!

I wish I knew.:(