Boundaries Emotional Type Quiz

55. It's amazing how spot-on some on some of the questions are.

Is this related to the HSP scale by chance? I score high on that one too. Saw that thin-boundaries was related to StPD/BPD/SPD.

NimplyDinply wrote:Is this related to the HSP scale by chance? I score high on that one too. Saw that thin-boundaries was related to StPD/BPD/SPD.

Not sure about schizoids. That is why I posted here. But yes thin boundaries is a classic hallmark of borderline personality, found in both borderlines and schizotypals(pseudo-neurotic schizophrenia).

I guess HSP, Dream Prone Personality, Low Latency Inhibition are related concepts, and all tend to show high openness on Big Five too.

11. Well then.......

That wall protecting someone's vulnerability that was brought up earlier is a good explanation for low scores.

NimplyDinply wrote:Is this related to the HSP scale by chance?

quiz wrote:Evidence suggests that thin boundary people are highly sensitive in a variety of ways and from an early age:
- React more strongly than do other individuals to sensory stimuli and can become agitated due to bright lights, loud sounds, particular aromas, tastes or textures.
- Respond more strongly to physical and emotional pain in themselves as well as in others.
- Become stressed or fatigued due to an overload of sensory or emotional input.
- Be more allergic and their immune systems are seemingly more reactive.
- Be more deeply affected -- or recall being more deeply affected -- by events during childhood.
In a nutshell, highly thin boundary people are like walking antennae, whose entire bodies and brains seem primed to notice what's going on in their environment and internalize it. The chronic illnesses they develop will reflect this "hyper" style of feeling.

that sounds to me like the definition of the concept of hsp

i remember i took this quiz a while ago and to me it all seemed too vague and ambiguous. but given my recent experiences, i don't think i need a quiz to know that i have very thin boundaries. i think it gets easier to understand when i think of it in terms of emotionally-based boundaries and deliberate ones. my deliberate boundaries with most people are rigid (arguably too rigid sometimes), but with a select few people who i feel comfortable with (or, paradoxically, with random strangers sometimes when i'm off-guard), i can have very thin boundaries, which sometimes bothers me, but sometimes it doesn't

those things about heightened sensory/emotional response are true for me all the time no matter what. which i'm aware is the very reason why i isolate myself

I got 33..

creative_nothing wrote:

NimplyDinply wrote:Is this related to the HSP scale by chance? I score high on that one too. Saw that thin-boundaries was related to StPD/BPD/SPD.

Not sure about schizoids. That is why I posted here. But yes thin boundaries is a classic hallmark of borderline personality, found in both borderlines and schizotypals(pseudo-neurotic schizophrenia).

I guess HSP, Dream Prone Personality, Low Latency Inhibition are related concepts, and all tend to show high openness on Big Five too.

Makes sense. I saw here that there was a link between the three, including SPD: http://www.ceoniric.cl/english/articles ... s_mind.htm

This might explain the significant overlap between StPD and BPD.

Thanks for your reply, cn.

I got a 35 which is right in the middle. I guess I don't really understand what the test results really mean and what some of these questions are supposed to have to do with thick skinned or thin skinned. I'm skeptical of an 18 question test being able to define people, but yet I take it anyway...

Results of Your
Emotional Type Quiz

You scored a total of 19

Based upon your answers to this quiz, you appear to have thick boundaries.

Evidence suggests that thick boundary people are stolid, rigid, implacable or thick skinned:
■Brush aside emotional upset in favor of simply "handling" the situation and maintaining a calm demeanor.
■Suppress or deny strong feelings. They may experience an ongoing sense of ennui, of emptiness and detachment.
■Experiments show, however, that thick boundary people don't actually feel their feelings any less. Bodily indicators (e.g., heart rate, blood pressure, blood flow, hand temperature, muscle tension) betray their considerable agitation despite surface claims of being unruffled.
In sum, highly thick boundary people don't take in nearly as much in their environment and they are much slower to recognizing what they're feeling. However, they are affected just as much as thin boundary people by what's happening within. The differences will ultimately manifest in different types of chronic illness.

creative_nothing wrote:

NimplyDinply wrote:Is this related to the HSP scale by chance? I score high on that one too. Saw that thin-boundaries was related to StPD/BPD/SPD.

Not sure about schizoids. That is why I posted here. But yes thin boundaries is a classic hallmark of borderline personality, found in both borderlines and schizotypals(pseudo-neurotic schizophrenia).

I guess HSP, Dream Prone Personality, Low Latency Inhibition are related concepts, and all tend to show high openness on Big Five too.

I was just reading about the similarities/differences between schizotypal and autism spectrum, which lead me to here. I got a 51, apparently more "hyper", which I've already read is more correlated to schizotypal. I've been thinking I have asperger's for a while but now I'm thinking it could be schizotypal? If thin boundary hints at schizotypal then this would support my thinking. Would a thick boundary score be more likely related to autism spectrum?

The question of autism vs. schizotypal still confuses me, especially with the whole "spectrum" thing. It seems like if you believe in aliens and conspiracy theories, you're schizotypal, and if you rock back and forth and you can't understand figures of speech, you're autistic. Otherwise...