Form: Schizotypic Syndrome Questionnaire, SSQ

1 – YES
2 – yes
3 – no
4 – NO
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1
I often feel frightened when somebody asks me something unexpectedly.
2
I do not want to have anything to do with other people.
3
I often find that other people have difficulty understanding my words.
4
I tend not to experience strong emotions.
5
Occasionally, parts of my body seem to be dead or unreal.
6
I can create a completely private world in my own thoughts.
7
I tend to be suspicious of other people.
8
I often neglect my work.
9
It sometimes seems as if I am a prisoner in my own world.
10
Occasionally, I have the silly feeling that a TV or radio broadcaster knew that I was listening to him or her.
11
It seems quite natural to me that people should serve me and satisfy my needs.
12
I often dislike others.
13
It scares me if somebody I don't know suddenly enters my room.
14
In discussions, I often show very little of myself.
15
I find it difficult to express myself clearly in a discussion.
16
Sometimes, I am devoid of all feeling.
17
Occasionally, I feel that my arms or legs have momentarily grown in size.
18
In my fantasies, I can make anything happen.
19
I am rather distrustful.
20
I often feel weak and listless.
21
It sometimes feels as if I live in a glass house.
22
I sometimes feel that messages are hidden for me in the way things are arranged, as in a shop window.
23
Actually, I only like myself.
24
Sometimes, I can be quite sarcastic.
25
I am afraid to make friends with people.
26
I limit my contact with other people to what is absolutely necessary.
27
I often do not know how to express my ideas in words.
28
Sometimes, nothing affects me.
29
At times, I have momentarily felt that the things I touch stick to my body.
30
Sometimes, I am entirely wrapped up in a world of fantasy.
31
Most people pretend to be friendlier than they really are.
32
I lack perseverance most of the time.
33
My surroundings sometimes seem unreal to me.
34
I am sometimes influenced by the hand movements of strangers.
35
People sometimes say that I am only interested in myself.
36
I foster a grudge against people who have wronged me.
37
I am anxious to act spontaneously in the company of others.
38
I refuse to be involved with others.
39
Occasionally, I use words inappropriately in a sentence.
40
Sometimes, I do not experience any joy or sorrow.
41
Sometimes, I feel that everything around me is wobbling or tilting.
42
In my fantasies, my wishes are often satisfied.
43
I often notice that people talk about me behind my back.
44
Even the slightest effort tires me.
45
The things around me sometimes appear unreal.
46
I sometimes have a feeling of gaining or losing energy when certain people look at me or touch me.
47
I think that people should give special consideration to my wishes.
48
Other people have little to contribute to me.
49
I usually have great difficulty in adapting to other people.
50
I prefer to keep my distance from others.
51
Sometimes, I am unable to make sense of my own words.
52
I appear to have lost the ability to have any feeling.
53
Ordinary colors sometimes seem too bright (without me taking drugs).
54
In my fantasies, I tie all sort of things together as it pleases me.
55
I am rather distrustful of most people.
56
Sometimes, days pass without me really doing anything.
57
It sometimes seems as if there is a wall between me and my surroundings.
58
Occasionally, I have the feeling that certain thoughts of mine really belong to someone else.
59
Actually, I am only interested in myself.
60
I sometimes behave very hostile towards people.
61
I become afraid when people come close to me.
62
I avoid friendship with other people.
63
It sometimes appears as if I get bogged down in my own words.
64
I feel inside as cold as ice.
65
I sometimes have the feeling that my hands or feet are far away.
66
If something cannot be actualized in reality, I realize it in fantasy.
67
Many people cannot be trusted.
68
I often cannot get myself going.
69
At times, there seems to be no contact with my surroundings.
70
I have sometimes felt that I might cause something to happen just by thinking too much about it.
71
In conversations, I often consider only my own point of view.
72
I find fault with other people quite easily.
73
Even in the company of people I know well I sometimes feel uncomfortable.
74
I do not like people to come too close to me.
75
The meaning of what I say is often unclear to others.
76
I cannot get emotionally excited anymore.
77
Sometimes, ordinary things, like tables and chairs, appear strange to me.
78
My ideas actually constitute a separate reality.
79
When it comes to the crunch, very little can be expected from people.
80
I have very little energy.
81
Sometimes, the people around me appear to be puppets.
82
At times, I have the feeling that a message in the newspaper, or a talk on the radio, was meant especially for me.
83
I think that some people consider me to be a selfish person.
84
I am often in a bad mood.
85
I am often very shy in the company of other people.
86
There are only a few people with whom I want to have contact.
87
The words I use are often not precise.
88
Sometimes, I feel completely empty inside.
89
My hearing is sometimes so sensitive that ordinary sounds become uncomfortable.
90
In my fantasies, the world becomes more beautiful.
91
The only person you can really trust is yourself.
92
Often, I leave things unfinished.
93
Sometimes, when I look in the mirror, I see a stranger.
94
I think it is possible to change something in your environment simply by thinking that it will happen.
95
I do not like doing things for other people.
96
I am rather quick to criticize people.
97
Actually, I am afraid of people.
98
I prefer to avoid people.
99
I notice that I am sometimes not fully aware of what I am talking about.
100
I am at times unable to feel anything.
101
Over a stretch of several days, I sometimes have such a heightened awareness of sights and sounds that I cannot shut them out.
102
I am sometimes so engaged in my daydreams that I experience reality as disrupting.
103
I sometimes wonder whether people mean what they say.
104
Every effort puts too great a strain upon me.
105
I sometimes feel alienated from myself.
106
I think you can win in a game of chance by concentrating beforehand on its outcome.
107
I usually follow only my own desires in what I do.
108
I find it difficult to forgive other people.

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