Friday, November 14, 2003

Personality Disorder Test Results
Paranoid |||||| 26%
Schizoid |||||||||||| 42%
Schizotypal |||||| 30%
Antisocial |||||||||||| 50%
Borderline |||||||||| 38%
Histrionic |||||||||||||||||| 74%
Narcissistic |||||||||||||||| 62%
Avoidant |||||||||||||||| 62%
Dependent |||||||||||||||| 70%
Obsessive-Compulsive |||||||||||| 46%
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Histrionic Personality Disorder - individual often displays excessive emotionality and attention seeking in various contexts. They tend to overreact to other people, and are often perceived as shallow and self-centered.

Avoidant Personality Disorder - individual is socially inhibited, feels inadequate, and is oversensitive to criticism

Dependent Personality Disorder - individual shows an extreme need to be taken care of that leads to fears of separation, and passive and clinging behavior.


Ah. So I have about three personality disorders???

... Lit 1 was over today. The questions were relatively easy, esp. if you consider that last year's A level Rossetti question was "How far would you agree that Rossetti's poetry is morbidly emotional?" or something to that effect. Therefore there was completely no reason for me to do what I did, i.e. freak out and waste HALF AN HOUR crossing stuff out and re-writing them.

This, owing to the fact that I chose to begin the Rossetti question first, as I normally score better for it than for Shakespeare. So I did the context question, but the problem was they asked how it was characteristic of her other works, whereupon I started off with a very essay-like intro. Shortly afterward I started feeling extremely disoriented as "This is an essay-essay type intro" + "This is a CONTEXT question" = "I must've done something WRONGGGG!!!!" threw me into a total panic. So I freaked, and I freaked, and my paper just about went out of the window next to which I was sitting.

It got so bad that I quit the Rossetti (after half an hour!!!) and started on Much Ado instead. And I was so jumpy about the time by then (we have one hour for each essay) that I didn't even plan... just read the question, highlighted parts of it, and hurled myself headlong. Thank goodness it went well... I didn't get to write much (four pages, in EXTREMELY LARGE handwriting) but managed to throw in some comparisons on Shakespeare's source stories, so with that bit of value-added I should do alright. I did the context for Othello as well... properly this time, thank goodness, and then wrote four pages for Rossetti in half an hour. I don't care that much for Shakespeare, as I usually pass it by about two marks. But then again I usually get an "A" on Rossetti to even it up. Now I will have to bank completely on Lit 3 and 8, and I'm not even sure if the same thing will happen again.

Lit 3 will be better Lit 3 will be better Lit 3 will be better.

(It can't get much worse.)