This online self-test is designed for preliminary assessment. If your score indicates that you may have a dependent personality disorder, use the test’s results to decide if you need to see a doctor or other mental health professional to further discuss diagnosis and treatment of Dependent Personality Disorder. You could also use the test regularly to motor improvement on your therapy.
The Dependent Personality Disorder Test is based on the diagnostic criteria of DPD. According to DSM criteria, people with Dependent Personality Disorder are emotionally dependent on others, whom they consider important people of their lives. They feel so bound to their close ones that they make a great effort trying to please them at any costs. Dependent personality has content a fear of separation, tend to be very needy, and find it extremely difficult to make any decision without support from others.
This test covers all the above-mentioned symptoms. However, as any other self-reported test, it does not replace proper professional assessment. If your score indicates that, you have a probability of having a dependent personality disorder, but proper mental health assessment does not find any, it means that the test is mistaken in your case and provided a false positive result.
Many individuals who have dependent personality disorder may also suffer from an additional mental disorder, most commonly Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Phobia, and Depression.
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