The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) is an alternative to more traditional psychopathological frameworks, such as the DSM-5 and ICD-11, for understanding mental health conditions and the associations between them, also known as comorbidity. The HiTOP system has already produced a substantial body of evidence for its veracity.
Each dimension is scored 0–30 from your responses.
Have you ever been diagnosed with any of the following mental health or neurodevelopmental conditions?
Do any of your close relatives (parents, siblings, grandparents, etc.) have these traits?
Which of these feel like ongoing struggles for you?
What patterns do you notice running through your family (emotionally, behaviorally, or cognitively)?
For each notable experience, note roughly when it happened and what lasting impact it's had.
Use this frame to connect 2–3 issues: "My [pain point / weakness] seems connected to [predisposition/condition] + [specific experiences] + [current context]. It may have originally helped me by [functional purpose], but now it negatively impacts me by [negative impact]."
Psychological Profile Maps (PPMs) are psychological questionnaire and journaling tools. It helps you lay out your information for a clinician to review and for you to progressively make changes to as your treatment progresses.
Mental health professionals deal with a lot of cases which cannot possibly be generalized under the constraints of modern psychology. PPMs help physicians formulate cases with their patients, by condensing relevant information into an intuitive chart.
The objective of PPMs is to reduce wasted time, money and effort in therapies and prescriptions that aren't relevant, or may even be harmful. For example, a well-formulated PPM can help a mental health professional differentiate serotonin-based depression symptoms from dopamine-related depression. In some cases, this will result in an erroneous diagnosis of "treatment-resistant depression" and a misprescription of serotonin-related drugs (such as SSRIs), which can cause long-term neurological and psychological harm to the patient.