{
  "assessmentTests": {
    "dissociation_screener": {
      "name": "Detachment & Unreality Check-In",
      "desc": "A 20-question self-reflection across four domains: detachment from self, unreality of surroundings, absorption and zoning out, and everyday memory gaps.",
      "recommendation": "Your detachment & unreality profile",
      "questions": [
        {
          "question": "I sometimes feel like I'm watching myself from outside my own body, as if I were an observer rather than the person living it.",
          "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 frequent part of my life" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "My own voice or reflection can suddenly feel strange or unfamiliar to me, like it belongs to someone else.",
          "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 frequent part of my life" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "There are moments when my emotions feel muted or far away, like I'm behind glass rather than actually feeling 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 frequent part of my life" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "My hands, arms, or other body parts have felt like they don't quite belong to me.",
          "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 frequent part of my life" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I've had the sense that I'm going through the motions of my life without really being present in it.",
          "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 frequent part of my life" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "Familiar places, like my own home or workplace, have suddenly felt unreal or unfamiliar to me.",
          "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 frequent part of my life" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "The world around me sometimes looks flat, hazy, or like I'm seeing it through a fog or a screen.",
          "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 frequent part of my life" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "People I know well can suddenly seem like strangers to me, even mid-conversation.",
          "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 frequent part of my life" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "Objects and rooms I know well have felt oddly distant, or the wrong size, without anything actually changing.",
          "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 frequent part of my life" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I've had moments where everything around me felt dreamlike, as though I could be about to wake up.",
          "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 frequent part of my life" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I get so absorbed in a book, show, or daydream that I completely lose track of where I am.",
          "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 frequent part of my life" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I arrive somewhere, like work or home, with no memory of the drive or walk it took to get there.",
          "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 frequent part of my life" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I zone out during conversations and realize afterward that I missed a chunk of what was said.",
          "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 frequent part of my life" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "Time can pass, an hour or more, without me being able to account for what I was doing.",
          "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 frequent part of my life" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I get so lost in my own thoughts that someone has to say my name more than once to get my attention.",
          "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 frequent part of my life" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I find things in my bag, browser history, or receipts that I have no memory of buying or doing.",
          "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 frequent part of my life" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "There are stretches of my day, or even whole conversations, that I can't recall clearly afterward.",
          "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 frequent part of my life" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "People have told me about something I said or did that I have no memory of at all.",
          "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 frequent part of my life" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I've shown up somewhere, like an appointment, with no memory of having made the plan in the first place.",
          "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 frequent part of my life" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I lose track of which version of a story I told to which person, because I can't recall telling it in the first place.",
          "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 frequent part of my life" }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "dimensions": {
        "detachment_from_self": {
          "name": "Detachment From Self",
          "desc": "How often you feel disconnected from your own body, emotions, or sense of being the one living your life, more like you're watching from a distance than fully in it.",
          "high": "You regularly feel like an observer of your own life, watching from outside rather than fully inhabiting your body or your emotions.",
          "low": "You generally feel present in your own body and emotions, without a sense of watching yourself from a distance.",
          "icon": "🪞",
          "science": "Bernstein, E.M., & Putnam, F.W. (1986). Development, reliability, and validity of a dissociation scale. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 174(12), 727-735."
        },
        "unreality_of_surroundings": {
          "name": "Unreality of Surroundings",
          "desc": "How often familiar people, places, or objects around you suddenly feel unreal, foggy, or dreamlike, even though nothing about them has actually changed.",
          "high": "Your surroundings regularly feel unreal, hazy, or dreamlike, even in places and with people you know well.",
          "low": "The world around you generally feels solid and familiar, without moments of sudden unreality.",
          "icon": "🌫️",
          "science": "Bernstein, E.M., & Putnam, F.W. (1986). Development, reliability, and validity of a dissociation scale. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 174(12), 727-735."
        },
        "absorption_and_zoning_out": {
          "name": "Absorption & Zoning Out",
          "desc": "How easily you get so pulled into a book, show, daydream, or your own thoughts that you lose track of your surroundings or the passage of time.",
          "high": "You regularly get so absorbed in something, a story, a daydream, your own thoughts, that the world around you and the passage of time fall away.",
          "low": "You rarely lose track of your surroundings or the time, even when something holds your attention.",
          "icon": "💭",
          "science": "Tellegen, A., & Atkinson, G. (1974). Openness to absorbing and self-altering experiences and its measurement. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 83(3), 268-277."
        },
        "everyday_memory_gaps": {
          "name": "Everyday Memory Gaps",
          "desc": "How often ordinary stretches of time, conversations, or actions go missing from your memory, showing up later as evidence you can't quite place.",
          "high": "Ordinary chunks of your day, conversations, actions, plans, regularly go missing from memory, sometimes surfacing later as evidence you can't place.",
          "low": "Your memory for ordinary events and conversations generally holds together, without unexplained gaps.",
          "icon": "🧩",
          "science": "Bernstein, E.M., & Putnam, F.W. (1986). Development, reliability, and validity of a dissociation scale. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 174(12), 727-735."
        }
      },
      "results": {
        "minimal": {
          "name": "Minimal Dissociative Experiences",
          "desc": "Feeling briefly zoned out or losing track of a drive now and then is normal, and your answers suggest that's about where you sit. Detachment, unreality, and memory gaps don't seem to be a regular pattern in your day-to-day life.",
          "recommendation": "Your responses suggest dissociative experiences aren't a significant pattern for you right now. If that ever changes, the four domains above are a good place to check back in."
        },
        "mild": {
          "name": "Mild Dissociative Experiences",
          "desc": "You notice moments of detachment, unreality, or a missing stretch of time more than most people do, though it doesn't yet seem to be shaping your daily life. This is common, especially during stress, poor sleep, or after a difficult stretch.",
          "recommendation": "This is a good moment to notice what tends to bring these moments on, stress, fatigue, a specific setting, before any pattern sets in further. Grounding techniques, like naming five things you can see, feel, or hear, can help bring you back to the present when it happens."
        },
        "moderate": {
          "name": "Moderate Dissociative Experiences",
          "desc": "Detachment, unreality, or memory gaps are showing up often enough to notice, and possibly often enough to affect your work, relationships, or sense of continuity in your own life. This pattern is well-studied and often connects to stress or difficult past experiences, not a character flaw.",
          "recommendation": "Consider talking to a therapist, ideally one familiar with dissociation or trauma-informed care. Grounding techniques help in the moment, but a professional can help you understand what's driving the pattern and build a plan around it."
        },
        "high": {
          "name": "High Dissociative Experiences",
          "desc": "Detachment, unreality, and memory gaps appear to be showing up often enough to disrupt daily functioning, relationships, or your sense of continuity. This level of dissociation is a recognized clinical pattern, often connected to stress, anxiety, or past trauma, and it responds well to the right kind of support.",
          "recommendation": "A conversation with a therapist experienced in dissociation or trauma-informed care is a reasonable next step soon. This screener looks only at everyday detachment, unreality, absorption, and memory-gap experiences, it is not a screening tool for Dissociative Identity Disorder or any other diagnosis, and only a licensed clinician can provide one. If this ever comes with thoughts of self-harm, please reach out to a crisis line: in the US, call or text 988; in the UK, call Samaritans at 116 123."
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "testNames": {
    "dissociation-screener": "Detachment & Unreality Check-In"
  }
}