Mood and Neurotype Differential Screen

This is a self-report checklist for adults. For Bipolar II, borderline personality disorder (BPD), ADHD and autism, it checks your answers against the structure of the DSM-5-TR criteria. It shows the result for each one side by side, because these conditions often co-occur. It does not pick a single winner. It also screens for dyslexia and other learning disorders, dyspraxia (DCD), tic disorders, developmental language disorder, OCD, and giftedness, which is a psychometric classification, not a diagnosis.

The scoring is deterministic: the same answers always give the same output. If a criterion item is unanswered or marked "Not sure", the result shows Incomplete, never "Not met".

This screen is not validated, and its accuracy is unknown. It cannot diagnose, and it must not be used to start, stop or change medication. Bring the copied report to your psychologist or psychiatrist.

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Answer scales differ by section. Statements use Not true / Slightly / Mostly / Very true, and "Mostly" or above counts as present. This cut-off is a convention and has not been calibrated. ADHD items ask how often over the past 6 months, and "Often" or above counts. Episode and context items are Yes / No / Not sure.

Privacy: your answers are saved only in this browser on this device, and they stay there until you press "Clear all answers". If others use this device, clear your answers when you finish. The sensitive item X11 is never saved.

Result

Criterion profile

Each condition is assessed on its own; they are not ranked. Statuses: Criteria pattern met · Subthreshold · Not met · Incomplete (unanswered items could change it) · Indeterminate (only "Not sure" answers are blocking) · Excluded.

Contrast panel

These are features you endorsed that the research associates more with one condition than another. Weights: 3 = replicated or large effect, 2 = consistent review-level support, 1 = indirect or contested. The weights never change the profile statuses above, and the pairs are never combined into a score. Endorsing features on both sides of a pair is consistent with co-occurrence.

Secondary screens

Rule-based notes

Caveats

This screen is not validated, and its sensitivity and specificity are unknown. It cannot diagnose, and it must not be used to start, stop or change medication.
People who seek out a screen like this resemble clinic referrals. In that setting even validated questionnaires flag many people who do not have the condition:
- The Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ) has a specificity of 29% in referred adults.
- The adult ADHD screener (ASRS) has a specificity of 44% in people with BPD and 74% in an ADHD clinic.
- The Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ) has a specificity of 79% in mental-health settings and detects Bipolar II less well.
In psychiatric outpatients, a positive bipolar screen was about as likely to mean BPD (27.6%) as bipolar disorder (23.5%).
Almost half of women with BPD score above an autism-trait cut-off.
These conditions really do co-occur, so more than one row can be meaningful. For example, about 17% of adults with bipolar disorder also have ADHD, and about 20–24% of people with Bipolar II also have BPD.
Your current mood changes how you recall past episodes. ADHD screener results vary across countries and languages, and no version of these items has been validated in Filipino adults.
Some criteria cannot be checked by self-report:
- For bipolar disorder, ruling out psychotic disorders.
- For autism, ruling out intellectual disability.
- For learning disorders, the standardized testing they require.
Giftedness is a psychometric classification, not a diagnosis.

Scoring rules

Each gate follows the DSM-5-TR criterion structure. Every input is True, False or Unknown, where Unknown means unanswered or "Not sure". A status is given only when the answer would be the same whatever the unknown items turned out to be. Otherwise the status is Incomplete or Indeterminate, with a list of the items blocking it.

Condition	"Criteria pattern met" requires
Bipolar II	A distinct period of abnormal mood together with increased energy (A0, A2), lasting 4 or more consecutive days, most of each day (A3, A4), and noticed by others (A13). At least 3 of the 7 hypomania symptoms A5–A11 occurring together (A12). If the mood was irritable only (A1), at least 4 are needed. No features of mania: no hospitalisation, psychosis or serious consequences (A14a–c), any of which gives "Excluded". The period did not happen only during substance use, medication changes or illness (A15). A major depressive episode (M1–M12): at least 5 of 9 symptoms including M1 or M2, together for 2 weeks or more, with impairment and no substance or medical cause.
BPD	At least 5 of the 9 criteria (B1–B9). B4 is not counted if the impulsivity happens only during high periods (B4h). The pattern must also have begun by early adulthood (B10), be pervasive (B11), and be present outside mood episodes and substance use (B12).
ADHD	At least 5 of the 9 inattention items or at least 5 of the 9 hyperactivity-impulsivity items, rated "Often" or more. Each domain is counted separately. Also required: several symptoms before age 12, in 2 or more settings, causing interference, for 6 months or more, and present when mood is normal. The presentation (combined, predominantly inattentive or predominantly hyperactive-impulsive) is reported.
Autism	All 3 social-communication items (D2–D4) and at least 2 of the 4 restricted or sensory items (D5–D8). Also required: early-developmental onset (D1) and significant difficulty (D9). Masking (D10) and meltdowns (D11) are descriptive only and never counted.

Secondary screens report screen positive, partial, negative or incomplete:

Learning disorders need difficulty that persists despite help (FX1) and exclusions answered (FX2).
OCD needs obsessions or compulsions, plus more than an hour a day or significant distress, with no substance or medical cause.
Tics are classified as Tourette pattern (2 or more motor tics and 1 or more vocal tic, 1 year or more, onset before 18), persistent motor or vocal, or provisional.
For giftedness, only a measured IQ of 130 or more counts as meeting the classification. Self-estimated IQ correlates only weakly with measured IQ (r ≈ .33).

When two conditions both have a subthreshold or met status, overlap flags list the endorsed items they share, such as distractibility for hypomania and ADHD, or talkativeness, sleep and impulsivity. These shared symptoms can inflate both counts.

Validated next steps to request

Hypomania: HCL-32, which is better than the MDQ for Bipolar II, plus a 2–3 month daily mood chart and input from someone who saw you during high periods.
BPD: the MSI-BPD self-report screen (cut-off 7 of 10), then a structured clinical interview such as SCID-5-PD.
ADHD:
- ASRS v1.1. Its specificity is low in people with BPD.
- A childhood retrospective rating, ideally with a parent or sibling.
- Then a structured diagnostic interview such as DIVA-5.
Autism:
- RAADS-R or RAADS-14, or the AQ. Both flag many people who are not autistic: AQ specificity was 0.29 in referred adults, and RAADS-14 specificity was 0.46 against ADHD.
- Then a clinical assessment with a developmental history, such as ADOS-2 plus an informant interview.
- CAT-Q measures camouflaging, not autism.
Learning disorders and language: the Adult Reading History Questionnaire (ARHQ) as a dyslexia self-check, then standardized psychoeducational testing, which DSM-5-TR requires. For language, a speech-language assessment.
DCD: the Adult Developmental Coordination Disorders Checklist (ADC), then occupational therapy or medical assessment.
OCD: the OCI-R self-report (cut-off 21 or more), then the clinician-rated Y-BOCS.
Tics: assessment by a psychiatrist or neurologist, for example with the YGTSS.
Giftedness: a full IQ test (WAIS-5, the current edition) given by a licensed psychologist or psychometrician. The index-level profile is more informative than subtest scatter.

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