subnote: why did i suddenly start to blog daily again?

anyways, i dunoe, but anyways.. after i blogged the previous post, I boliao go wiki look up on depression.. den u noe those self survey report that supposedly can help you determine whether you are depressed, or to make it sound worse and less emo, "Suffering Depression".

Heres an example and the website i decided to use:
http://www2.psy.unsw.edu.au/groups/dass/

I think the test looks stupid, the questions abit.. generic.. i mean, things like:

Question 12: I felt and depressed:

0 Did not apply to me at all

1 Applied to me to some degree, or some of the time

2 Applied to me to a considerable degree, or a good part of time

3 Applied to me very much, or most of the time

.... erm.. i guess... 1? 2? how am i supposed to determine? but to make myself more emo, i put 2 (3 cannot coz i still hav periods of normaliness and happiness)

but the way they phrase it ah, you feel like this questions are all trustable.. that's taking into account that there are these questions on the same test:



Question 21: I felt that life wasn't worthwhile

Question 38: I felt that life was meaningless

And abit different, but still asking about the same thing:

Question 37: I could see nothing in the future to be hopeful about

Isn't them the SAME??? Well I did nevertheless.. dun even noe whether my answers are accurate.. anyways, inside the documentation, I saw something that make me :|

Brief: If you used the shorter 21 question test instead of the longer 42 question test, how do you make sure your results are as accurate as the longer test? Well you can simply multiply by 2. However, if you are perfectionist, you should multiply your scores by these numbers:

Depression: 1.04645
Anxiety: 1.02284

Stress: 0.98617

...


well, anyways i still do the test, examine yourselves today! Get the test from

http://www2.psy.unsw.edu.au/groups/dass/

Under download DASS, down the whole zip file.. it supposedly measures stress, anxiety, and depression. By right, after you completed, you paste the result sheet over your 2 pages of answer sheet.. you'll notice the result sheet as 21 slots of answers, each one labeled with a S(tress), A(nxiety), and D(epression). So if you are doing the 42 answers, the next 21 you reuse the result slot.. like question 22 treat it as question 1, question 42 treat it as question 21.

After you are done, just add up your results under S, and A, and D. So you will have 3 results. Then measure them according to the scale at the bottom of this website:

http://www.swin.edu.au/victims/resources/assessment/affect/dass42.html

Happy evaluating :)