{
  "assessmentTests": {
    "borderline_personality_screener": {
      "name": "Emotional Intensity & Relationships Check-In",
      "desc": "This check-in reflects on patterns of emotional intensity, relationship stability, self-image, and impulse control that many people experience to varying degrees.",
      "recommendation": "Your emotional intensity & relationships profile",
      "questions": [
        {
          "question": "I feel an intense wave of panic when I sense someone I care about pulling away, even a little.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I go to great lengths, texting repeatedly, showing up unannounced, apologizing for things that aren't my fault, to keep someone from leaving.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "The fear that people I love will eventually leave me sits in the back of my mind even when things seem fine.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "My close relationships tend to swing between thinking someone is amazing and feeling deeply let down by them.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I've gone through cycles of breaking up and getting back together with the same person more than once.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "A relationship can go from feeling perfect to feeling unbearable within the same week.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "My sense of who I am shifts depending on who I'm spending time with.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "My values, goals, or interests can change dramatically depending on the relationship or group I'm in.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I struggle to describe who I really am, my likes, my beliefs, my direction, in a way that feels stable over time.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "When I'm upset, I find myself spending money, eating, or acting in ways I later regret.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I've made snap decisions while overwhelmed with emotion that I wouldn't have made in a calmer moment.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I act on urges, like driving recklessly, using substances, or overcommitting to something, before thinking through the consequences.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I have thoughts of hurting myself when overwhelmed by emotion.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I've felt an urge to harm myself as a way to cope with emotional pain.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "Thoughts of not wanting to be alive have crossed my mind.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "My mood can shift dramatically, from fine to devastated to angry, within just a few hours.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "My emotions feel so intense that they're hard to bring back down once they start.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "Small stresses that other people brush off can send my emotions spiraling.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I carry a persistent feeling of emptiness, like something inside me is missing.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I feel disconnected from myself, like I'm going through the motions rather than really being present.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "Even when things in my life are going well, a sense of hollowness lingers underneath.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "My anger can feel intense and hard to control once it's triggered.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I find myself in frequent arguments, or occasionally physical fights, that escalate faster than I intend.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "Once I'm angry, it takes me a long time to calm back down.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "dimensions": {
        "abandonment_fears": {
          "name": "Abandonment Fears",
          "desc": "How intensely you fear people leaving or rejecting you, and how much that fear shapes your behavior.",
          "high": "Your responses suggest a strong fear of being left or rejected, one that can lead to frantic efforts to hold onto relationships. This is a deeply human fear that, when it runs this hot, is often rooted in past experiences of loss or inconsistency, it's a pattern, not a character flaw.",
          "low": "Fear of abandonment doesn't appear to play a major role in how you relate to others, you generally feel secure that important relationships will hold.",
          "icon": "😰",
          "science": "Lieb, K., Zanarini, M.C., Schmahl, C., Linehan, M.M., & Bohus, M. (2004). \"Borderline personality disorder.\" The Lancet, 364(9432), 453-461."
        },
        "unstable_relationships": {
          "name": "Unstable Relationships",
          "desc": "How much your close relationships swing between idealizing someone and feeling let down by them.",
          "high": "Your responses point to a pattern of relationships that swing between intense closeness and intense disappointment. This push-pull rhythm is common and treatable, it doesn't mean you're incapable of stable connection, it means your relationship patterns could use some support.",
          "low": "Your relationships appear to hold a fairly steady, even keel, without big swings between idealizing and feeling let down by the people close to you.",
          "icon": "💔",
          "science": "Lieb, K., Zanarini, M.C., Schmahl, C., Linehan, M.M., & Bohus, M. (2004). \"Borderline personality disorder.\" The Lancet, 364(9432), 453-461."
        },
        "identity_disturbance": {
          "name": "Identity Disturbance",
          "desc": "How stable your sense of self, values, and goals feels across different relationships and situations.",
          "high": "Your responses suggest your sense of identity feels unsteady, shifting depending on who you're around or what's happening in your life. Many people who experience this describe feeling like they don't have a fixed \"core self\" yet, that's a common, workable pattern, not a flaw.",
          "low": "Your sense of who you are, your values, interests, and goals, appears fairly consistent across different relationships and settings.",
          "icon": "🪪",
          "science": "Lieb, K., Zanarini, M.C., Schmahl, C., Linehan, M.M., & Bohus, M. (2004). \"Borderline personality disorder.\" The Lancet, 364(9432), 453-461."
        },
        "impulsivity": {
          "name": "Impulsivity",
          "desc": "How often you act on urges in potentially risky ways, especially when emotions are running high.",
          "high": "Your responses suggest that strong emotions sometimes lead to impulsive choices, in spending, eating, substance use, or other areas, that you later regret. This is a well-documented pattern, and building a pause between the urge and the action is a skill that can be learned.",
          "low": "Impulsive behavior during emotional moments doesn't appear to be a significant pattern for you.",
          "icon": "⚡",
          "science": "Lieb, K., Zanarini, M.C., Schmahl, C., Linehan, M.M., & Bohus, M. (2004). \"Borderline personality disorder.\" The Lancet, 364(9432), 453-461."
        },
        "self_harm_urges": {
          "name": "Self-Harm Urges",
          "desc": "Whether thoughts of self-harm or not wanting to be alive have come up for you when emotions feel overwhelming.",
          "high": "Thoughts like these deserve support from a professional, you don't have to sit with them alone. These thoughts are more common than people realize, and they are also very treatable with the right support.",
          "low": "Thoughts of self-harm don't appear to be part of your current experience.",
          "icon": "🩹",
          "science": "Lieb, K., Zanarini, M.C., Schmahl, C., Linehan, M.M., & Bohus, M. (2004). \"Borderline personality disorder.\" The Lancet, 364(9432), 453-461."
        },
        "emotional_instability": {
          "name": "Emotional Instability",
          "desc": "How intensely and how quickly your moods shift, and how manageable those shifts feel.",
          "high": "Your responses suggest your emotions run intense and can shift quickly, sometimes within hours, in response to everyday stress. This kind of emotional weather is exhausting to live with, and it's also one of the patterns most responsive to skills-based support.",
          "low": "Your mood appears fairly steady, without the fast, intense swings some people describe.",
          "icon": "🌊",
          "science": "Lieb, K., Zanarini, M.C., Schmahl, C., Linehan, M.M., & Bohus, M. (2004). \"Borderline personality disorder.\" The Lancet, 364(9432), 453-461."
        },
        "chronic_emptiness": {
          "name": "Chronic Emptiness",
          "desc": "How persistent a feeling of inner emptiness, numbness, or disconnection feels for you.",
          "high": "Your responses point to a lingering sense of emptiness or disconnection that shows up even when things are going okay on the surface. This is a common, quietly painful experience, and it tends to ease with support that helps you reconnect with a stable sense of self.",
          "low": "A persistent sense of emptiness or numbness doesn't appear to be part of your day-to-day experience.",
          "icon": "🕳️",
          "science": "Lieb, K., Zanarini, M.C., Schmahl, C., Linehan, M.M., & Bohus, M. (2004). \"Borderline personality disorder.\" The Lancet, 364(9432), 453-461."
        },
        "anger_control": {
          "name": "Anger Control",
          "desc": "How intense your anger feels and how easily you're able to bring it back down once it's triggered.",
          "high": "Your responses suggest anger can hit hard and feel difficult to control once it starts, sometimes spilling into arguments or conflict that escalate faster than you'd like. Learning to recognize the early signs of rising anger is a skill that can make a real difference here.",
          "low": "Anger doesn't appear to be something that frequently escalates or feels out of your control.",
          "icon": "😡",
          "science": "Lieb, K., Zanarini, M.C., Schmahl, C., Linehan, M.M., & Bohus, M. (2004). \"Borderline personality disorder.\" The Lancet, 364(9432), 453-461."
        }
      },
      "results": {
        "minimal": {
          "name": "Minimal Emotional Intensity Patterns",
          "desc": "Your responses suggest a mostly steady sense of self and generally stable relationships. The intense emotional swings, identity shifts, and relationship instability described in this check-in don't appear to be a significant part of your day-to-day experience.",
          "recommendation": "Keep nurturing the routines and relationships that help you feel grounded. There's nothing here that suggests a need for professional support right now, this check-in is simply a helpful baseline to come back to if things ever change."
        },
        "mild": {
          "name": "Mild Emotional Intensity Patterns",
          "desc": "Your responses point to some noticeable emotional intensity or relationship ups-and-downs, showing up from time to time but generally manageable. These patterns are common and don't mean something is wrong with you, many people experience emotions and relationships this way.",
          "recommendation": "Try journaling or a simple mindfulness practice to name emotions as they arise, putting words to a feeling (\"I notice I'm afraid of being left right now\") can take some of its intensity down. If these patterns start showing up more often or feel harder to manage, it's worth checking in with a counselor."
        },
        "moderate": {
          "name": "Moderate Emotional Intensity Patterns",
          "desc": "Your responses suggest these patterns, intense emotions, relationship swings, or a shaky sense of identity, are showing up often enough to affect your relationships or day-to-day functioning. This isn't a diagnosis, but it is a meaningful signal worth paying attention to.",
          "recommendation": "Consider talking with a therapist about what you've noticed. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a leading evidence-based approach specifically designed for exactly these kinds of emotional intensity and relationship patterns, and many people see real, steady improvement with it."
        },
        "high": {
          "name": "Significant Emotional Intensity Patterns",
          "desc": "Your responses point to a strong, recurring pattern across emotional intensity, relationships, identity, and impulse control that appears to be substantially affecting your life. This is not a diagnosis, only a licensed professional can make one, but the pattern is significant enough that reaching out soon would likely help.",
          "recommendation": "Please consider reaching out to a licensed mental health professional soon. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) was specifically developed for these patterns and is highly effective, these emotional patterns are very treatable, and you don't have to manage them alone. If you're in crisis, contact a crisis line or emergency services in your area."
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "testNames": {
    "borderline-personality-screener": "Emotional Intensity & Relationships Check-In"
  }
}