Nuller's Depersonalization Scale Test - the question form
Questions: 16 · 3 minutes
1. Feelings toward those close to you
Complete loss of emotional feelings toward those close to me
Numbing of feelings toward those close to me
Preservation of Feelings for Loved Ones
Increased feelings of pity and love toward those close to me
2. Perception of the surroundings
The surroundings feel "dead," flat, or fragmented
The surrounding environment is perceived as dull, as if through a fog.
Perception is not impaired
Sharply emotionally charged
3. Perception of nature
Does not affect me at all
Dulled
Not impaired
Acute emotional
4. Perception of works of art (music, painting, theater, cinema)
Completely unnoticed
Dulled
Not impaired
Intensely emotional
5. Depersonalization of thinking
A feeling of a complete absence of thoughts in my head
Loss of the sense of understanding the person I am speaking with
The same, but partially
Not detected
6. Depersonalization of memory
A feeling of complete absence of memory despite objectively intact memory
Feeling of memory decline
Not present
Heightened, emotionally vivid memories
7. Sense of familiarity
Everything around me feels completely unfamiliar, as if seen for the first time
Familiar things are not recognized right away; recognition is difficult, as if they are "not quite familiar"
Not violated
Unfamiliar people and things feel familiar
8. Emotional reactions
No feelings of hurt, anger, compassion, or joy
Blunting of emotional reactions
Within normal limits
Increased emotional reactivity
9. Sense of contact with others and ability to empathize
Complete absence of a sense of contact, feelings, or ability to empathize
Partial lack of the sense of contact, feeling, and the ability to empathize
Within normal limits
Increased
10. Self-perception
Feeling like an automaton, a doll, or something not alive, like a machine
Same, but indistinct; a sense of automaticity in one’s actions
Normal
11. Feeling of emotional pain
The loss of feelings causes emotional pain
Same, but less intense
No feeling of emotional pain
12. Sense of time
No sense of time
Time has completely stopped (at the present moment)
Slowed Passage of Time
Normal
The Feeling of Time Speeding Up
13. Depersonalization of mental imagery
Inability to form a mental image
Dulling of mental images
Mental images are reproduced normally
14. Somatopsychic depersonalization
Complete absence of pain, touch, temperature, taste, and proprioceptive sensations; sense of weight; sensations of sleepiness, hunger and satiety; urges to defecate, etc.
Dulling of the sensations listed in option 1
No
15. Interpretation of depersonalization experiences
Grandiose delusion, bizarre
Delusional interpretation, impervious to reason
Delusional interpretation, partially amenable to reassurance
No
16. Mood
No mood
Heavy existential melancholy
Melancholy
Low mood
Normal mood
Slightly elevated mood
Elevated Mood