Every so often, before I see my therapist, I have to fill out a battery of questions about how I feel, how my sleep is, do I feel sad or anxious, and a bunch of other stuff she would care about while treating me. The answers required are always on some sort of a Likert scale, like this:
In the past 2 weeks, have you been able to see the funny side of things?Sounds easy enough, right? Well, here's where I hit a wall:
- As much as I ever could
- Not quite so much now
- Definitely not so much now
- Not at all
Try to characterize your mood in the last two weeks:How am I supposed to answer that if I was worried a couple times on a few days? What does it mean to say "I was always worrying about something sometimes" ?!?!???!!!?
"I was always worrying about something."
- never
- very rarely
- rarely
- sometimes
- often
- very often
- almost constantly
Sheesh.
And just for kicks, here's my favorite question that I get to answer:
Have you felt peaceful and calm?Have YOU felt peaceful and calm during the last two weeks? I feel like if I answer "all of the time" that I should walk into my therapist's office and say, "I'm cured! I'm outta here!"
- all of the time
- most of the time
- a good bit of the time
- some of the time
- a little of the time
- none of the time
3 comments:
"I was always" followed by rarely is just bad semantics. I used to administer tests and never liked addressing these contorted items. We are often instructed to say something standardized, like, "just choose the answer that best fits." Meaning, absolutely no help.
Peaceful and calm? I don't think I know what that is. It that at 11:25pm when the boys, the fiance and the cat are all passed out somewhere and I'm sitting there drinking tea and catching up on Criminal Minds? :)
Just so you're not always worrying about something almost constantly. What happened to the therapist waiting till you sit down, and asking how it's going?
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