June 21, 2019 By Chris Foy Addictive Personality Begin the Addictive Personality Quiz Now. We've surveyed over 500 participants to create a baseline for the following questions. See how your personality relates to our initial survey. Remember, this is not clinical advice and cannot replace a diagnosis. Results will simply show how you compare to a sample of self-selecting participants. 1. Do you consider yourself to be a risk-taker? True False None 2. Do you think that greater pleasure is tied to greater risk? True False None 3. Do you commit to quitting an activity but find that you keep coming back to it? True False None 4. Do you want to stop this behavior that you struggle to regulate? Do you see a problem with continuing? True False None 5. Do you find that you self-medicate with certain activities to relieve stress? True False None 6. Do you have strong feelings associated with completing certain activities, as if they are an itch that needs to be scratched? True False None 7. Do you ever get in trouble at work or school because of the actions you’ve taken (or not taken) as a result of your engagement in this activity? Perhaps you failed to complete an assignment because you chose to drink, for example. True False None 8. Have you gotten into legal trouble related to the activity? Perhaps this has happened more than once. True False None 9. After a stressful day at work or school, do you find yourself thinking only about engaging in that activity, perhaps thinking it is the only way you are going to find relief from your anxiety, stress and fear? True False None 10. Do you recognize how your life suffers because of your commitment to an activity? Even when you recognize this, do you still find it hard to stop engaging in that activity? True False None 11. If you can't engage in a specific activity for a period of 24 hours, do you feel pain, anxiety, frustration or suffer a panic attack? Do you have physical complications resulting from not using it? True False None 12. Has anyone ever expressed concern with you about your engagement in this activity, either the frequency or the activity itself? True False None 13. If there is an activity you struggle to regulate, do you feel pleasure or a sense of relief when you engaging in using it? True False None 14. Do you feel like you need to hide the people who you usually engage in this activity with you from your family and friends and keep your lives separate? True False None 15. Do you find yourself thinking about an activity, be it an stress-relieving activity or any kind of substance use regularly? Do you think about this activity at least one or more times a day? True False None 16. Have you ever become frustrated due to something interfering with your plan to partake in an activity you engage in often? True False None 17. Have you developed a health problem that seems to stem at least in part from this activity? True False None 18. Do you avoid openly admitting to how often you use this substance/participate in this activity with friends and family because you don’t want people to know how much you do it? True False None 19. Do you lie to other people about your activities or behaviors, which could indicate that you are ashamed of them? True False None 20. If you’re running out of a substance or won't have access to a particular activity or you know you cannot engage in that activity for a few hours or days, do you get angry and frustrated? True False None 21. Do you have trouble sleeping because you are thinking about the activity or substance? True False None 22. Are you not taking care of your health the way you would like to, such as eating healthy meals, getting exercise, maintaining personal hygiene and getting sleep? True False None 23. Do you ever ask anyone else to supply a substance for you because you are worried that someone will think you are buying too much or, perhaps, you cannot get more? True False None 24. Are you facing financial difficulties as a result (at least in part) of your engagement in this activity? It could be due to missing rent or mortgage payments to ensure you have enough of the substance or engaging in gambling away your food money. True False None 25. Do you ever take risks to get the substance or participate in an activity, even when you know you should not? Perhaps that includes driving on a suspended license or ducking out of work to get the relief you need? True False None Time's up
