Anyone ever taken the MCMI?

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I did. I believe I got 90% for either avoidant or anxiety. I also got schizoid and schizotypal. I lied on a couple questions but mostly truthful.

Yes- and very recently too. I scored high on anxiety as well.

That's the test that I was having trouble remembering the name of before... apparently I just took it a week or so ago, but I won't get the results until the 2nd. I didn't complete it in 30 minutes (as stated in the wiki article) ... I completed it in like 2.5 hours. Although the neurologist said most of the people he sees finish in about 70.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millon_Cli ... _Inventory

There were an unusually large number of questions that were difficult for me to answer... "my father is a good man", true or false ... umm... my father is fantastically unstable, fairly irresponsible, beat my mother, was distant toward his kids (and like everything else is too neurotic to do something about that), and once layed down under the tire of a girlfriend's car as she was leaving during a fight and wound up (predictably) with the rear axle of the car having rolled over his head and onto his back.

So

a) what's the question?
Is the question "are his intentions good" or is the question "are his actions good" or is the question something else all together?

b) how in blue blazes does that have anything to do with whether or not *I* have a personality disorder if I answer truthfully that he behaves poorly?

But as I expected, even though it does say you can skip questions there is a maximum tolerance for skipped questions. After the first 50 or so questions I was concerned that there would be too many unanswered questions for him to score it. But then the latter half seemed to be easier and I ended up with only 14 unanswered questions, so like in the neighborhood of 97.5% complete. He said 14 would be within the tolerance.

yes, I remember taking it about 14 years ago. I remember telling them after I took it that I didn't see how it could identify anything as all you had to do was remember what you said on the same question (that was asked in a different way) before and lie about anything.
They gave me a pretty blank look and told me no one could do that. .and I just looked at them and I gotta hand it to one of the doctors, cause he amended the statement as most people could not do that, even if they tried. I remember just shrugging and thinking they were wrong.

This was years before Asperger's Syndrome was known in my country, unfortunatly. anyway, I remembered all the right answers and answered rightly. . . so I wouldn't be institutionalized. (not that they had the room or the funds to put me into an institution!) I guess living in a poor state has kept me free in more ways than one.
If I lived in a more prosperous state, I would probably have been locked up long before this!

Merle

I got 90 something % on schizotypal. I dont know why that ones classified under "severe" personality disorders. I also got high on schizoid, narcisstic, and borderline but didnt meet the dx criteria for those and was above average for most of them except avoident and dependent. They dx'ed bipolar as well.

I've taken it sometime in 2007 and I scored high in the psychotic disorders section, anxiety, depression, dysthymia, dependent personality disorder, avoidant personality disorder, thought disorder, schizotypal personality disorder and a few others that I can't remember because I have to find my results. I have them somewhere. Some things were off the charts! I scored off the charts in delusional disorder. If they had a schizophrenia section, I probably scored high on that as well. I'm just plain nuts. The results according to the psychologist that gave me the test (at least I think it is the MCMI- I know for a fact it wasn't the MMPI) was undifferentiated schizophrenia (I guess they don't test for schizoaffective on there because that is my diagnosis from everyone else), I ain't that crazy! I think this test has 175 questions and I was disappointed that it wasn't the more detailed MMPI because that is what she was originally going to give me. Now I am officially confused. Too bad they don't test for something I only have which is called "generalized confusion disorder." That isn't in the DSM....yet.