Emotional deprivation disorder test
Emotional detachment test (Instant results)
by Hanan Parvez
Emotional detachment is the opposite of emotional attachment and empathy. People who’re emotionally detached are unable to fully engage with their feelings and the feelings of others.
For some people, emotional detachment is a personality trait. They consistently show behaviors that scream emotional distance. For others, emotional detachment is a strategy they occasionally deploy to deal with uncomfortable emotions.
Showing a consistent pattern of emotional detachment often has its roots in adverse childhood experiences. Long story short, these people miss out on learning how to connect emotionally with others.
Needless to say, they experience a lot of problems in their relationships.
Extreme emotional detachment could stem from introversion, sociopathy/psychopathy, or a personality disorder.
This test consists of 17 items on a 5-point scale ranging from Totally agree to Totally disagree. Select items that best describe you most of the time. The test takes less than 3 minutes to complete. No personal information is collected, and your answers aren’t stored in our database.
Emotional detachment test
1. I have difficulty opening up to people.
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2. I find intimate relationships challenging.
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3. I'm bad at showing love and affection.
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I find it hard to connect with people.
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5. I've been told that I have poor listening skills.
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6. There's a lack of physical and verbal contact in my life.
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7. I avoid talking about my feelings.
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8. I don't believe in compromises.
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I can easily detach myself from people who've been close to me.
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10. I have commitment issues.
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11. Breakups hardly affect me.
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12. I've been told that I have an expressionless face.
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13. I feel uncomfortable when people compliment me.
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I've been called a heartless person.
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15. I don't consider myself a romantic person.
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16. I'm bad at comforting people.
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17. I don't care how my actions affect others.
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Hanan Parvez( Author )
Hi, I’m Hanan Parvez (MBA, MA Psychology), founder and author of PsychMechanics.
PsychMechanics has been featured in Forbes, Business Insider, Reader’s Digest, and Entrepreneur.
Emotional Deprivation Disorder — The Baars Institute
Emotional Deprivation Disorder
Emotional Deprivation Disorder was first discovered by Dutch psychiatrist Dr. Anna A. Terruwe in the 1950’s. She called it the frustration neurosis (De frustratie neurose in Dutch; Deprivation Neurosis when translated into the English language by her colleague, Dr. Conrad W. Baars), as it has to do with the frustration of the natural sensitive need for unconditional love. Dr. Terruwe found that a person could exhibit symptoms of an anxiety disorder or repressive disorder when these symptoms, in fact, were not the result of repression, but rather the result of a lack of unconditional love in early life. Emotional Deprivation Disorder is a syndrome (a grouping of symptoms) which results from a lack of authentic affirmation and emotional strengthening by another.A person may have been criticized, ignored, abandoned, neglected, abused, or emotionally rejected by primary caregivers early in life, resulting in the person’s arrested emotional development. Just like children, unaffirmed persons are incapable on their own of developing into emotionally mature adults until they receive authentic affirmation from another person. However, while unaffirmed persons cannot affirm themselves, there is much they can do to help themselves. Maturity is reached when there is a harmonious integration between a person’s intellect, will and emotions and under the guidance of their reason and will. 1
1. Baars, Conrad W. & Anna A. Terruwe. Healing the Unaffirmed: Recognizing Emotional Deprivation Disorder. Rev. ed. Suzanne M. Baars and Bonnie N. Shayne (eds.) Staten Island, NY: ST PAULS/Alba House, 2002.
Insufficiently Developed Emotional Life
Abnormal rapport
Incapable of establishing normal, mature interaction with others
Feels lonely and uncomfortable in social settings
Capable of a willed rapport but not an emotional connection in relationships
Egocentric
Childhood level of emotional development
Feels like a child or infant and expects others to focus their attention on them just as an adult would focus on a young child
Incapable of emotional surrender or giving to a spouse
Reactions around others
May be either fearful by nature or courageous and energetic
More fearful people tend to become discouraged or depressed
More courageous and energetic persons can become more aggressive or self-affirming
Uncertainty & Insecurity
Fear or anxiety
Can take the form of a generalized anxiety
Fear of hurting someone else’s feelings
Fear of hurting others or contaminating them (e.
g. with germs or a cold)Need for frequent reassurance
Feels incapable of coping with life
Worries that they’ll be put in a situation they can’t handle
Can be easily discouraged or depressed
May pretend to be in control in order to mask inner feelings and fearfulness
Hesitation and indecisiveness
Oversensitivity
Need to please others
Pleases others in order to protect self from criticism or rejection and gain approval of others
Easily taken advantage of or exploited
Fear of asking for favors or services needed
Self-consciousness
Helplessness
Inferiority and Inadequacy
Feeling unloved
Believes that no one could possibly love them
Feels devoid of all feelings of love
Believes they are incapable of loving others or God
Suspicious of any token of affection – continually doubts sincerity of others
Physical appearance
Feelings of intellectual incompetence
Shows signs of disintegration in new circumstances
Fear of new situations and challenges
Difficulty coping with new job, boss, landlord, moving, etc.
Sense impairments
Undeveloped or underdeveloped senses (touch, taste, sight, smell)
Lack of order, disorganization
Fatigue
Further symptoms found in some individuals with emotional deprivation disorder:
This syndrome and its related symptoms and therapy are discussed at length in Healing the Unaffirmed: Recognizing Emotional Deprivation Disorder.
The Discovery of Deprivation Neurosis
(Now Called Emotional Deprivation Disorder)
This important discovery was made by Dr. Anna Terruwe as a result of a therapy session with a 25-year-old, highly intelligent woman. Surprisingly, months of psychotherapy went by without the woman making any progress. She had come in with feelings of “intense anxiety” and she “possessed an unusually infantile emotional life” (Baars & Terruwe, 2002). One day the woman said to Dr.
Terruwe, “Doctor, nothing that you say has any effect on me. For six months I have been sitting here hoping you would take me to your heart… you have been blind to my needs.”
This revelation by the patient came as a surprise to Dr. Terruwe who realized that this woman “…felt like a child. She needed only one thing—namely, to be treated in a tender, motherly fashion.” Dr. Terruwe began to explore whether the lack of love and tenderness by a mother “would be sufficient to bring about a neurotic illness without the further action of a repressive process.” As Terruwe and her American colleague Baars set out to substantiate this new concept, they found many patients who were not getting better through traditional psychoanalytic therapy who appeared to have neurotic disorders not caused by a repressive process. Upon further investigation, they found that a neurotic disorder could indeed be caused solely by the lack of love of a mother or other significant person in a child’s life. They named this “disorder” or syndrome the “Frustration Neurosis” or “Deprivation Neurosis,” because it manifests the frustrated sensitive need for unconditional love of every human being.
Deprivation Neurosis is now being called “Emotional Deprivation Disorder” to keep in line with current psychiatric nomenclature in the hopes that it will one day be included in American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 1
1. American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association. (Current edition: DSM-IV-TR; Fourth Edition, Text Revision. 2000.)
EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING TEST – Alkoinfo.ee
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If a person does not recognize the problem himself, it is difficult to help him. According to studies, compulsory treatment is the least effective option, since the person himself lacks intrinsic motivation. The basis of change is the desire to change one's use. It is written in the Mental Health Act .
- 11. Involuntary emergency psychiatric care
(1) Without the consent of the person or his legal representative, a person is placed in a psychiatric department of a hospital for emergency psychiatric care or treatment is continued against his will (hereinafter referred to as compulsory treatment) only under the following circumstances:
1) the person has a severe mental disorder that limits their ability to understand or control their behavior;
2) a person left untreated, endangers his life, health or safety due to a mental disorder;
3) other psychiatric care is not enough.
(2) Compulsory treatment may only be applied pursuant to court order . Compulsory treatment can also be applied without a court order if it is necessary for the protection of the individual or society itself, and the inability to obtain a court order quickly enough.
(3) The decision on the application of compulsory treatment without the permission of the court is taken by the psychiatrist of the psychiatric department of the hospital upon arrival of the person in the psychiatric department or on the basis of the voluntary expression of the will of the person in the hospital. The decision is drawn up in the manner prescribed by the minister responsible for the area.
An application for involuntary treatment can be submitted, for example, by a social worker, doctor or anyone else who proves that the person's behavior is dangerous to himself or others. It is quite possible that the mere fact that a person abuses alcohol and deliberately does not want to change it, despite the harm he has caused to his health, may not be enough to refer him to compulsory treatment.
You can discuss the person's situation with the family doctor or the local social worker of the city government and get their opinion. He may agree to go to the doctor for a general physical examination. It is possible that when the doctor talks about the use, it gives a completely different effect. Sometimes a person does not link their health complaints to alcohol use.
You can also make an appointment with a specialist, with whom you can consider this topic closer together. As of 2016, it is possible to receive free comprehensive treatment for alcohol use disorder within the framework of the Sober and Health Estonia program at nine hospital-based alcohol use disorder treatment centres. All services are free. Contacts for centers near your place of residence can also be found on the website. You can read more about treatment. Relatives/relatives/acquaintances of a person who uses alcohol can also apply for a free consultation, even if the drinker himself does not agree to go for treatment or consultation.
An adult is responsible for his own life and health. He has a choice whether to drink alcohol or not. You can only give information that will help him change his use and give his support.
Remember to take care of yourself and live your life, whatever decision he makes.
Detailed Emotional Intelligence Test
Emotional Intelligence (EI) tests measure a person's ability to recognize and understand their own emotions and the feelings of others and use these skills in interactions with others.
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