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>>8831385

Huh? Are you saying that I'm retarded because I automatically took the MMPI results to heart? I didn't necessarily take the MMPI results very seriously. The MMPI just felt so stupid and like a total waste of 7 hours out of my time and $700 out of my wallet. My first (and previous) psychiatrist even seemed to agree with me on this as he had admitted to me that he believed the MMPI to be: “not very scientific” (his exact words.)

It seems like it would be too easy to “cheat” the MMPI. Let me put it this way: these last few years I've spent a great deal of time reading about psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy, PDs, mental disorders, etc. I had first heard about the MMPI back in around June of last year (after I had inquired to my psychiatrist about testing for PDs, and having him inform me of the MMPI and that it wasn't performed at any of his offices.)

When I was taking the MMPI, some of the questions were things like: “I believe that spirits communicate through me. True or False?” I'd see questions like that and quietly think to myself: “this seems like the sort of question that a person with Schizotypal Personality Disorder and/or schizophrenia might answer 'True'. I don't want to get myself diagnosed with schizophrenia, do I? They'll just take away my Adderall and probably prescribe me an antipsychotics like Abilify instead. Regardless, I don't actually believe that spirits communicate through me... do I? Well, I sort of used to. During childhood. And part of my adolescence. But that was then and this is now. I'm 27 now. I don't believe in that sort of stuff anymore. Or do I? Just answer the damn question already! OK. False.”

Picture related: it's the first page of my psychological evaluation report. It shows which other questionnaires aside from the MMPI were administered to me.

>>8771675

>Isn't it expected that if you have some anxiety disorder that you'll feel anxiety when discussing the situations that give you anxiety? IANAP but seems normal to me.

It's all a really long, weird, and complicated story, but I'll try my best to summarize as much as I can with these next few posts.

I paid my psychologist $700 to test me for disorders back in July of last year, and afterward he wrote me my psychological evaluation report (pic related: it's page 1 of my psychological evaluation report) and sent it over to me in .pdf format via e-mail.

Meanwhile, my psychiatrist wanted to stop prescribing Adderall to me because he believed that I was "delusional". So I printed out my psychological evaluation report (which states that I'm neither delusional nor hallucinating, and that it's perfectly safe for me to continue taking Adderall) and handed it over to my psychiatrist. At first, my psychiatrist seemed to take my psychological evaluation report seriously and agreed to continue prescribing Adderall to me. But two months later, he suddenly decided to change his mind and tell me that I was "delusional" and that he would stop prescribing Adderall to me. I told my psychologist all of this through various e-mails and begged him to speak to my psychiatrist to back up what was written on the psychological evaluation report... but my psychologist ended up writing to me:

>It is very simple: What you ask of me to do is not a service I provide.

I still had many questions that I wanted to ask my psychologist (such as why he wasn't willing to speak with my psychiatrist, when he could have just handed me a "Individual Patient Authorization" form which I know his corporation uses for communication between providers from different practices)...

>>8413163

>this board is for science and mathematics m8

Here's the first page of my psychological evaluation report.