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I would be willing to talk about my personal problems if I thought it might help me or a member of my family.
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I am always curious about the reasons people behave as they do.
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I think that most people who are mentally ill have something physically wrong with their brain.
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When I have a problem, if I talk about it with a friend, I feel a lot better.
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Often I don't know what I'm feeling.
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I am willing to change old habits to try a new way of doing things.
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There are certain problems which I could not discuss outside my immediate family.
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I often find myself thinking about what made me act in a certain way.
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Emotional problems can sometimes make you physically sick.
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When you have problems, talking about them with other people just makes them worse.
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Usually, if I feel an emotion, I can identify it.
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If a friend gave me advice about how to do something better, I'd try it out.
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I am annoyed by someone, whether he is a doctor or not, who wants to know about my personal problems.
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I find that once I develop a habit, it is hard to change, even if I know there is another way of doing things that might be better.
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I think that people who are mentally ill often have problems which began in their childhood.
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Letting off steam by talking to someone about your problems often makes you feel a lot better.
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People sometimes say that I act as if I'm having a certain emotion (anger, for example) when I am unaware of it.
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I get annoyed when people give me advice about changing the way I do things.
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It would not be difficult for me to talk about personal problems with people such as doctors and clergymen.
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If a good friend of mine suddenly started to insult me, my first reaction might be to try to understand why he was so angry.
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I think that when a person has crazy thoughts, it is often because he is very anxious and upset.
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I've never found that talking to other people about my worries helps much.
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Often, even though I know that I'm having an emotion, I don't know what it is.
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I like to do things the way I've done them in the past. I don't like to try to change my behaviour much.
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There are some things in my life that I would not discuss with anyone.
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Understanding the reasons you have deep down for acting in certain ways is important.
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At work, if someone suggested a different way of doing a job that might be better, I'd give it a try.
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I've found that when I talk about my problems to someone else, I come up with ways to solve them that I hadn't thought of before.
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I am sensitive to the changes in my own feelings.
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When I learn a new way of doing something, I like to try it out to see if it would work better than what I had been doing before.
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It is important to be open and honest when you talk about your troubles with someone you trust.
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I really enjoy trying to figure other people out.
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I think that most people with mental problems have probably received some kind of injury to their head.
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Talking about your worries to another person helps you to understand problems better.
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I'm usually in touch with my feelings.
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I like to try new things, even if it involves taking risks.
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It would be very difficult for me to discuss upsetting or embarrassing aspects of my personal life with people, even if I trust them.
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If I suddenly lost my temper with someone, without knowing exactly why, my first impulse would be to forget about it.
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I think that what a person's environment (family, etc.) is like has little to do with whether he develops mental problems.
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When you have troubles, talking about them to someone else just makes you more confused.
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I frequently don't want to delve too deeply into what I'm feeling.
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I don't like doing things if there is a chance that they won't work out.
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I think that no matter how hard you try, you'll never really understand what makes people tick.
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I think that what goes on deep down in a person's mind is important indetermining whether he will have a mental illness.
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Fear of embarrassment or failure doesn't stop me from trying something new.