The ability to determine ones particular personality type has never been simpler. In fact, it puzzles me that psychiatrists have not yet discovered this impressive and highly accurate diagnostic tool. If one needs to know exactly how he or she is wired, bring on the jig-saw challenge.
1. You may have Avoidant personality disorder, extreme fear of failure or are way too busy if you don’t go for this experiment and leave the puzzle un-opened and in the box. Remedy: You need to chill out.
2. You may have Obsessive compulsive disorder if you immediately pick up the puzzle and dive right in. You demonstrate an insane need to bring order from chaos and can not help spending hours on end trying to make sense out of little colored cut out shapes. Remedy: You need to clear off a shelf in your closet for the stack of puzzles you will soon acquire.
3. You can be sure of the OCD thing if you carefully separate the flat edges, do the border first, divide into color groups, and only place pieces which connect to each other in the center. Remedy: Keep going, you’re doing fine.
4. You may have Attention deficit disorder if you start the puzzle and then walk away before it’s even one-tenth finished. Remedy: Move on to video games.
5. Can you say Schizophrenic if at first you search for the piece that fits the desired spot and then suddenly switch it up and search for the spot that fits the piece? Remedy: Make a choice and stick to it, or not.
6. You think you might just be a little Paranoid if you cannot find the one piece you are looking for among the 750 or so left and you are firmly convinced that there is a conspiracy by the puzzle makers to leave that one piece out of the box to drive you crazy? Remedy: Relax, take a deep breath and look for a different piece.
7. You could be a bit of a Psychopath if you get angry, swear at the dog and throw the pieces all over the place. Remedy: You need to take up kick boxing.
8. You may have Severe anxiety issues if you can’t go to sleep until the last piece is in place. Remedy: Put on the coffee and pull an all nighter.
9. You’ve got a bad case of Non-specific disorder (which I like to call: Manic Manipulative disorder) if you leave the sky for others and weigh in on the uni-lateral stripes, words, faces, or other easily distinguishable objects. Remedy: If you can get by with it, good for you.
10. Oh you’re so Delusional if you prefer the 3,000 piece puzzle challengers with one main color, no recognizable pictures and all pieces of equal shape and size. Remedy: Have a reality check.
11. You are definitely Narcissistic if you hide the last piece to make sure that you are the one who gets to complete the puzzle. Remedy: You need to learn to share, you selfish little rat.
12. You have major Separation anxiety and you have trouble letting go if you are unable to break the puzzle down and put it back in the box. You keep running your hand over the beautifully smooth connected ridges and you no longer have the use of your dinning room table. Remedy: You need to pick up and move on.
Laura: So, I see you’ve moved on to Haiku-ing? Putting those words together can be like a puzzle. Thanks for the comment and visit.
Ops. I found my name at nr 4! Nice post. 🙂
Gracie Sam: Maybe you shouldn’t start cause it might just change you from an avoider into an addict. Thanks for the comment – enjoyed your blog.
Amazing! Do I have the avoidant personality? Lol, Just last week, my husband bought me a 700-piece puzzle (of a stunning sunset by the beach) and I just opened the box and had a good look at the pieces. I was overwhelmed by the lot of it. I need to chill out. Hehe. As of this moment, it’s still in the box. And I have also mentioned to him that I would want another 1,000-piece puzzle and I haven’t even started doing the 700 piece puzzle yet! 🙂
Fun post, thanks for sharing and for visiting my blog too. Have a great day.
Thanks Amber, my “brilliant” hair stylist
Brilliant:)
Kay: try it………..you may like it!
Sigh… I must have the avoidant personality. Chilling out is probably a good idea.
Well Gilly: Admitting our shortcomings IS the first step to recovery.
All of the above, I’m doomed!
Hello Totsy – thanks for the visit and comment. Yea – I hate it too – even though I have more than a few of my own pieces missing – hoping to find them along the way.
Now that I know I have Separation Anxiety issues, I need to plan the next thing before starting the puzzle so that I can separate and not glorify in my handiwork. I just hope my Paranoia doesn’t flare up right when I get to the last piece and it’s not there or I’m prone to throw the entire puzzle in the garbage. I hate it when pieces are missing. 🙂
#3 describes both Richard and me…hmmm, haven’t done a puzzle in a long time, may have to get one… 🙂
Coni: only number 3? I have scads of puzzles if you want to borrow one. Can’t promise they have all the pieces though
What am I? Be nice!
Tim: I’m not even going to venture a guess…….but I bet Molly could tell you.
Kewsmith: I don’t know whether to say good for you, or shame on you. thanks for the comment and for visiting my blog.
Just burned all my puzzles. I fit into too many of the abnormal personailty catagories to admit. Great post.
What a fun post! I saw myself in several of the descriptors and am not quite certain what THAT means! But I have a couple of funny stories I have to share.
Recently my grands and I broke open a brand new puzzle. When we got to the end, we had one piece left, but it did not fit. In fact, it was a duplicate of another piece already in place. I was so upset that I actually took pictures of the puzzle, ready to fire off an irate email the next morning. But then the next morning a grandkid found the missing piece on the kitchen floor. (Never buy tile that is very close to the color of the back of puzzle pieces.) Fine! We finished the puzzle, but were haunted by the fact that we had SOMEONE ELSE’s last piece!
When my oldest daughter started hanging with her future husband, the couple was drawn into a jigsaw puzzle that the other members of the family were assembling. My daughter was distressed at the end of the puzzle to realize that five puzzle pieces were missing. After letting her hunt all over the floor, the other members of the family one by one surrendered the pieces they had hidden. She should have known then that her in-laws were an interesting bunch.
Susan: Thanks for sharing these stories with us. You can tell so much about your “people” by their puzzle antics. “Interesting” is an all inclusive term!