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Self Assessment Tests

1. Are you Stuck?

2. ADD

3. Depression

4. Dissociation

1. Are you Stuck?

	1.	Do you have trouble getting yourself to do things you know you should do and basically even want to do?
	2.	Do you continue to do things even long after you know that they are wasteful and/or counterproductive?
	3.	Do you emotions derail you?
	4.	Do you have difficulty managing time?
	5.	Are you disorganized?
	6.	Have you had multiple job and relationship changes?
	7.	Do you feel that you can't do routine things efficiently, if at all?
	8.	Do you avoid obvious physical occupational, financial and social issues for extended periods?
	9.	Do you feel out of control of various areas of your life and unable to address them?
	10.	Do you have a family hx of depression or substance abuse?

1. Do you have ADD?

	1.	Are you under-reflective? Do you have trouble thinking things through?
	2.	Are you very sensitive to level of activity and stimulation?
	3.	Do you over-react to stimuli, either internally (daydreaming, impulsive behaviors) or externally (distractibility)?
	4.	Do you have difficulty with authority?
	5.	Do you have difficulty structuring time?
	6.	Have you been labeled an underachiever? Have you been told you weren't trying, when you felt you were trying very hard?
	7.	Do you have many ideas, but poor follow-through?
	8.	Do you have difficulty with motivation?
	9.	Are you moody, irritable, and restless?
	10.	Do you have family history of ADD?

1. Do you have Depression?

	1.	Do you have sleep or energy problems, acutely or chronically?
	2.	Do you have problems with anxious physical feelings, acutely of chronically?
	3.	Do you have difficulty experiencing pleasure?
	4.	Do you engage in obsessive pointless or unproductive thinking?
	5.	Are you excessively negative and/or irritable?
	6.	Do you experience apathy and loss of motivation?
	7.	Are your emotional reactions out of proportion to the situation?
	8.	Do you have a sense of "not being yourself"?
	9.	Does your mood change, sometimes abruptly, without provocation?
	10.	Do you have a family history of depression?

1. Are you Dissociated?

	1.	Do you have trouble getting yourself to start things?
	2.	When you put things off, do you often forget about them?
	3.	Are you often late?
	4.	Do you make promises you don't keep?
	5.	Do you get trapped in anxious or depressed moods?
	6.	Do you avoid seeing and accepting larger patterns of avoidance?
	7.	Are you prone to addictions?
	8.	Is there a lack of coherence between you intentions and your actions?
	9.	Do you have a history of childhood trauma: induced for example by ADD, learning disabilities, substance abusing or divorced parents, gender identity issues?

Test completed.

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