Schizophrenia is not as rare a disease as many people think. It should be clearly understood that only a specialist can accurately determine if you are sick, healthy or have a tendency to the disease. However, on the Internet there are many rapid tests based on pictures, color cards, optical illusions, and so on.
Let’s see what tests you can pass
- Clothing testing. When a person comes to the doctor for testing, the specialist immediately evaluates the appearance. It often happens that patients with schizophrenia dress in things of bright colors, which, at the same time, do not combine with each other. Of course, this procedure can hardly be called objective, but no one takes it as the basis for making a diagnosis.
- Another interesting test for determining the state of personality is a test with color cards. For the first time, a person is given to choose a certain number of cards, and after a while the procedure is repeated. So, the colors chosen for the first time show the desired state of the person, and the second test shows the current one.
- Test with a picture of bright colors. In the figure, the circle is shown in black, and the stripes are any other from a bright palette. If in this variety a person saw the sun and grass, it is worth checking more carefully, since schizophrenics often see everything in colors that do not correspond to reality.
- Test with inaccurate images. The psychiatrist has a lot of fuzzy images. Show this to almost any of you and you will answer something like “Nothing is clear here”, “Some kind of rubbish”. The schizophrenic, on the other hand, will most likely answer that he saw something specific.
- Optical illusion test (mask rotating around its axis). You are presented with a gif image in which the theatrical mask rotates around its axis on a black background. Now answer the question, in which direction is the mask convex?
a) In one direction
b) Both
Of course, a healthy person will immediately answer — in one. Because the mask simply cannot be convex in both directions at once. A person with schizophrenia will not apply life experience in solving this problem — he simply sees a mask that first looks convex in one direction, and then in the other.
So where did we end up? It should be understood that such Internet tests are not a solution to the problem, but only a way to test yourself from home. If you notice any strange changes behind you, it is better to contact a specialist directly in order to carry out all the necessary tests and protect yourself from further problems.