I'm a raving lunatic, who woulda guessed?

To determine whether I'm insane or not, the doctor has given me homework. It's one of those "circle the number to show us how crazy you are" forms. I'm gonna share my answers now, and then I'm gonna go back to the doc's on sunday and find out if i passed the crazy test.

Please read each statement and circle a number 0 1 2 or 3 which indicates how much the statement applied to you over the past week. There are no right or wrong answers. Do not spend too much time on any statement.

0 Did not apply to me at all - NEVER
1 Applied to me to some degree, or some of the time - SOMETIMES
2 Applied to me to a considerate degree, or a good part of time - OFTEN
3 Applied to me very much, or most of the time - ALMOST ALWAYS

Questions:

The Am I Going Crazy Test (not really what it's called)

I found it hard to wind down	2
I was aware of dryness of my mouth	2
I couldn't seem to experience any positive feeling at all	2
I experienced breathing difficulty (excessively rapid breathing, breathlessness etc)	1
I found it difficult to work up the initiative to do things	3
I tended to over-react to situations	3
I experienced trembling (eg: in the hands)	1
I felt that I was using a lot of nervous energy	1
I was worried about situations in which i might panic and make a fool of myself	2
I felt that I had nothing to look forward to	3
I found myself getting agitated	3
I found it difficult to relax	3
I felt down hearted and blue	3
I was intolerant of anything that kept me from getting on with what i was doing	3
I felt I was close to panic	3
I was unable to become enthusiastic about anything	2
I felt i wasn't worth much as a person	3
I felt that I was rather touchy	3
I was aware of the action of my heart in the absence of physical exertion (heart rate increase, missing a beat)	2
I felt scared without any good reason	1
I felt that life was meaningless	2

Flip the page, and you get the score page.. it scores your Depression, Anxiety and Stress levels.

	Depression	Anxiety	Stress
Normal	0 - 4	0 - 3	0 - 7
Mild	5 - 6	4 - 5	8 - 9
Moderate	7 - 10	6 - 7	10 - 12
Severe	11 - 13	8 - 9	13 - 16
Extremely Severe	14+	10+	17+

Then underneath that, you have the treatment that you should be receiving depending on your Depression Score

00 - 04	Normal	Supportive Counselling, no clinical Treatment
05 - 06	Mild	Clinical treatement - CBT indicated plus Consider Possible Pharmacology Treatment
07 - 10	Moderate	Clinical Treatment - CBT indicated plus Pharmacology Treatment
11 +	Severe/Extremely Severe	Clinical Treatment plus Pharmacology Treatment plus Referral Suggested

So, my armchair psychologists, what do you think?

Shall I start looking for my very own Designer Straight Jacket? I think a purple one would be nice. Remember, I haven't got my results yet because, well, I just filled out the form.

But yeah, it's looking not so great.

My doctor's put me on Efexor 75mg for now - he's declared that after many years of "managing" my depression, my body & mind are unable to cope with the stresses I put on them, and this (the medication) is just a temporary thing until we know exactly where I sit on the clinically insane list (the last bit was not what he said) before we find some treatment that is right for me.

So, in the meantime, I get to be crazy off the books. Come sunday, I'm crazy and ON the books.