Are you perceptive?
You perceive a lot, and it costs you? This test separates the two: what you perceive, and what it costs you.
30 questions and 5 context questions · one at a time · about 8 minutes · immediate result
Two things the word confuses
Many people call themselves hypersensitive. The word has become an explanation for everything. It names no recognised disorder, and it does not say what is really happening.
It mixes two things. The first: a broad perception. You pick up more than average. That is neither a quality nor a flaw: it is a fact.
The second: a cost. What you pick up passes through you, tires you, scatters you, or complicates your relationships. It is this cost that causes suffering, not the perception itself.
One person can perceive a great deal without it costing them. Another can perceive less, and pay dearly for it (fig. 1). These are two opposite situations, and they do not call for the same answer.
This test separates the two: what you perceive on one side, what it costs you on the other.
Before you begin
Thirty questions, one at a time, then five context questions. About eight minutes. Answer according to what is generally true for you, not according to what you would wish.
This test has no diagnostic value, and replaces no medical or psychological advice. It does not measure an aptitude.
Your address is recorded only if you ask to receive your result. Your answers are kept anonymously, for the Centre’s research: nothing makes it possible to trace them back to you.
A research position
This test comes from the work M. Mischa Harmeijer devotes to heightened perception. He observes it in his practice and writes about it: texts, observations, accompaniments.
At his public meetings, in France, Belgium and Luxembourg, many people arrive with the same label: hypersensitive. The label says what they endure. It never says what produces it.
For the Centre, hypersensitivity is not a nature. It is a state: the overflow of a heightened perception that is not mastered. And this cause can be worked on. That is what the word PPA designates: Person with Heightened Perception.
Five last questions
They do not count in your scores. They serve only to read you correctly: what you have described does not mean the same thing depending on your age and on how long you have lived with it.
Like the rest of the test, they are kept anonymously: nothing makes it possible to trace them back to you.
A testimony
“I did not know it was a faculty”
A former subject recounts the passage from perception endured to perception understood. An extract from the film Words from former subjects, shot at the Centre. The film is in French.
This test is an orientation tool, without diagnostic value. The approaches of Centre EPÉU belong to a complementary field of observation and perceptive structuring, outside any care in the regulatory sense. They are in no case a substitute for a diagnosis or for medical, psychological or psychiatric treatment. In case of significant suffering, consult a health professional. Read the full note
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