Psychological issues of the characters?

[Jenny]

Well, that's good to know! I'd rather have been higher on ones which don't entail being unpleasant a large amount of the time, though...

Out of interest, does anyone think the Bauds/Quags have anything that isn't, by the end of the books, depression?

[Emma “Emmz” Squalor]

Aww, Jenny. You aren't narcissistic at all. *hugs*

These are my results:

Disorder | Rating
Paranoid: Low
Schizoid: Moderate
Schizotypal: Moderate
Antisocial: Low
Borderline: Very High
Histrionic: Low
Narcissistic: Low
Avoidant: High
Dependent: Very High
Obsessive-Compulsive: High

*EDIT*

I can certainly see the Baudelaires and the Quagmires suffering from depression by the time the series is over. In addition to that, they would most likely have post-traumatic stress disorder.

[Jenny]

Wow, could we have come out any more differently? That's so odd All the ones that were high on mine are low on yours and vice versa--except of course antisocial, but I assume that's because we both said we hadn't broken the law.

[Dante]

I think I've seen this test before in a Disturbing Discussion thread. Hint hint, self-diagnosis without reference to aSoUE should be limited to Disturbing Discussion. I'm not posting my results for this reason. Certainly nothing to do with nearly everything coming out as High. It's the test's fault for not including a "Sometimes" option.

Have the Baudelaires ever been depressed? It's hard to say, because, as pointed out in TGG, they are so often very active. I think true depression would require them to have abandoned all hope and collapsed due to despair at some point. Which has happened now and then - Violet's frustration in TEE when her inventions couldn't help - but not for very long. Oh, except for the period just after their parents died; classic depression symptoms there.

[Emma “Emmz” Squalor]

It is odd, isn't it? I was wondering why mine came out low on the antisocial scale before I bothered to read the definition. Because in real life I tend to be very, very shy and nervous around people I don't know well.

[Elle]

Oh gosh... *has serious issues*

Disorder Rating
Paranoid: Very High
Schizoid: Moderate
Schizotypal: High
Antisocial: Low
Borderline: Very High
Histrionic: High
Narcissistic: Low
Avoidant: Very High
Dependent: Very High
Obsessive-Compulsive: High

[Jenny]

I agree it's probably best to keep self-diagnosis to a minimum in the wrong section. I have to say, though, it's helped me to gain a better understanding of what I'm talking about just from reading out of interest about what the test said I was high in. And Elle, I think from the results of this test everyone has serious issues!

Perhaps depression--or as Emma rightly mentioned, post-traumatic stress disorder--would be more likely to kick in after the events in the series, when they aren't running any more, and have more time to wallow in sadness.

[Elle]

I just find it amusing that I got high or very high in nearly everything... And I think Lemony has paranoid personality disorder and schizoid personality disorder maybe...

[Hermes]

Jul 2, 2009 14:24:28 GMT -5 Jenny said:

Ahem...Fanon!Esmé as catalogued by Emma would have bulimia, and it's not something I can't see happening canon-wise.

I think there may be some slight justification for Esme having an eating disorder, because when she is praising Carmelita near the end of of TSS, she puts 'thin' among the terms of praise as if it were quite obviously a good thing.

Jul 2, 2009 16:21:50 GMT -5 Dante said:

It's the test's fault for not including a "Sometimes" option.

I quite agree. Tests of this sort force decisions in an unreasonable way, making the results seem more extreme than they are. Ironically, one of the questions was 'I see everything in black and white'.

Jul 2, 2009 16:45:33 GMT -5 Jenny said:

Perhaps depression--or as Emma rightly mentioned, post-traumatic stress disorder--would be more likely to kick in after the events in the series, when they aren't running any more, and have more time to wallow in sadness.

But of course after the actual running ended, they had a baby to look after - I suspect Handler thought of that precisely to help them deal with this problem.

[euro]

Guys, Kit does not have clinical depression; she was pregnant! All pregnant women (especially in the last trimester) get extremely hormonal and emotional, and it's common for them to feel lethargic, sad, and hopeless a lot of the time. I speak from experience

As for Esmé, I think it's pretty obvious she's a narcissist.
Kevin has serious issues... I mean, he hates himself for being ambidextrous- something most people would consider a talent.

[Elle]

Okay, so that might have exacerbated her depression.. But seriously, everyone she loves keeps dying... Sure, Jacques and Dewey were more recent, but the deaths of Lemony and her parents probably screwed her up emotionally.

*edit* Yea, I know Lemony isn't dead but she thinks he is.

[euro]

You make a good point, but then she's more likely to have PTSD than depression.

[Mijahu]

Yeah I think Kit was mostly suffering from pre-partum depression. Yes, she's had a lot happen to her, but in her normal state, I think she'd be a lot like Lemony. He acknowledges that his (and the Baudelaires') story is sad, but he's not clinically depressed.

[violetisinventing]

I personally see Isadora having Manic Depression in the case no one knows what that is it's Bi polar disorder. She is always tell Carmelita to shut up and it sometimes seems like she just can't help it.

[Lady Whatever]

I think a case could be made for Kevin and Collette both having some form of learned laziness or self defeating personality disorder. They feel so terribly about differences which other people would consider to be a gift, or at least a really neat ability, that it interferes with otherwise mundane activities, such as reading the newspaper.