It sounds like they were just joking around.
The psychological evaluation is more of a policy that keeps everything 'may issue'.
Psychological issues are in general discretionary. Yes some people have issues and a diagnosis is good and allows them to get help.
Yet everyone could be diagnosed with something, or various things could just be considered the harmless personality of a normal individual. That is entirely discretionary. If you feel someone should be disarmed you can consider a personality trait a disorder. If you feel they are okay to be armed you can just consider them a harmless individual without a disorder.
The choice is yours as the individual doing the evaluation. What orders do you have? Who are you working for? Are you contracted by a court or government agency that expects you to find a disorder? Do you feel the individual is safe or should you find a disorder?
The answer to all those and more can be a big determiner of whether a disorder will be diagnosed.
Every college student that takes psychology can diagnose everyone they know including themselves with various things.
What is normal is defined differently in every society. Some mental illnesses in some societies are normal traits in others.
So psychological tests are a way of deciding if someone is 'normal' enough.
So the questions being silly don't really mean anything.
They are still trying to see if he is 'normal' enough to qualify for a permit.
The psychological evaluation is more of a policy that keeps everything 'may issue'.
Psychological issues are in general discretionary. Yes some people have issues and a diagnosis is good and allows them to get help.
Yet everyone could be diagnosed with something, or various things could just be considered the harmless personality of a normal individual. That is entirely discretionary. If you feel someone should be disarmed you can consider a personality trait a disorder. If you feel they are okay to be armed you can just consider them a harmless individual without a disorder.
The choice is yours as the individual doing the evaluation. What orders do you have? Who are you working for? Are you contracted by a court or government agency that expects you to find a disorder? Do you feel the individual is safe or should you find a disorder?
The answer to all those and more can be a big determiner of whether a disorder will be diagnosed.
Every college student that takes psychology can diagnose everyone they know including themselves with various things.
What is normal is defined differently in every society. Some mental illnesses in some societies are normal traits in others.
So psychological tests are a way of deciding if someone is 'normal' enough.
So the questions being silly don't really mean anything.
They are still trying to see if he is 'normal' enough to qualify for a permit.