Relatix Bio has constructed tests, and accrued tests to help you profile yourself, or someone you care about. Some of these tests are similar to what you’d get from a psychologist, but they are all tailored to your experience of your life, rather than anyone else’s judgement. At Relatix Bio, we focus on your wellbeing and health first and foremost.
Quality of life, ways my brain works
This is a set of tests designed to give you insights into how your brain, or the brain of others work. These are also tests to see how your life is impacted by the way your brain works. Sometimes it is helpful to have another set of eyes, to help you get a perspective on where you are, which strengths to build on, and where you compensate, or could do with some support.
Ways of Thinking, Functioning & Life Impact
These surveys help you understand your overall well-being, daily functioning, and thinking patterns. Each can be completed for yourself, or as an observation for someone you support.
Ways of Thinking
Identifies cognitive patterns — focus, flexibility, self-reflection, stress, routines and novelty.
Quality of Life
Assesses satisfaction, social connectedness, daily functioning, health, and emotional balance.
Self-assessment tests
These tests are self-assessment, and only guides, but they can give you an indication of which diagnosis you might be given by a psychologist or a psychiatrist. Having said that, Relatix thinks differently about diagnosis. We focus on your lived experience, and the way you want your life to be, in the best possible world.
Choose whether you’re taking the test for yourself or as a supporter. None of these tests are a substitute for getting professional help, but can hopefully inspire you to continue to learn about yourself.
Conditions (A–Z)
ADHD
Inattentive, hyperactive-impulsive, combined; time-blindness, working memory, and regulation patterns.
Anxiety
Generalized, panic, social, phobic, separation; avoidance and safety-seeking patterns.
ASPD spectrum
Interpersonal/affective traits, risk/impulse control, and rule-breaking patterns across settings and time.
Autism
PDA/demand-avoidant profile, sensory-processing styles, and monotropism/strong-interest focus.
BPD
Emotion regulation, identity stability, rejection sensitivity, impulsivity, and chronic emptiness patterns.
Depression
Chronic courses: persistent, recurrent and seasonal patterns; energy, sleep, and motivation over time.
Eating Patterns
Restriction, binge/purge cycles, body image distress, and nutrition-related regulation patterns.
Narcissism
Grandiose and vulnerable features, self-esteem regulation, empathy style, and interpersonal impact.
Obsessive-Compulsive
Obsessions/compulsions, reassurance/ritual cycles, insight level, and functional impact.
PTSD
Intrusions, avoidance, arousal, dissociation, relational safety, and course over time.
Schizophrenic spectrum
Positive/negative symptom patterns, disorganization, and reality-testing changes across contexts.
Some issues with current psychological testing
Psychological tests and diagnostic assessments are useful, but they’re not perfect. Scores and labels can be shaped by factors beyond the thing we’re trying to measure—like socioeconomic context, education, and life events. For example, socioeconomic disadvantage is a consistent determinant of poorer mental health throughout life (Kirkbride 2024), and differences in family income/parental education have been linked to differences in children’s brain structure and cognition (Tomasi 2021; Norbom 2024). These social gradients can confound some diagnoses. In many parts of he world, diagnoses to do with how your brain functions can be expensive, inaccessible, or feel stigmatising.
Fairness matters, too. Measures should work equivalently across people (“measurement invariance”: Steyn 2020). In autism, several studies suggest that women are more often missed or diagnosed later (Gesi 2021; Belcher 2023; D’Mello 2022). The same is also anecdotally heard for many other diagnoses.
Also, agreement between professionals isn’t always high. In the DSM-5 field trials (Regier 2013), reliability varied notably across disorders. Over time, diagnoses can change as new information emerges or symptoms evolve, and multiple diagnoses are common—for instance, by midlife most people with one diagnosis had accumulated additional diagnoses (Caspi 2020).
Many tools rely on self-report, which brings human response styles into the mix—answering in socially desirable ways (Latkin 2017) or a general tendency to agree, which itself varies with age and education (Havan 2024). Ignoring these response biases can affect which diagnoses are made (Kreitchmann 2019).
Even with solid instruments, different tests for the same construct don’t always align, and experts can disagree on where to set cut-scores. Depression screening with the PHQ-9 is a good example: meta-analysis suggests acceptable performance across several thresholds (often 8–11) (Manea 2012), and recent data-driven work shows diagnostic differences depending on the chosen cut-point (Levis 2024). Altogether perhaps missing the point of a persons lived experience – if you feel that something is wrong, it probably is.
None of this means you shouldn’t see a professional—quite the opposite. A thoughtful assessment can open doors to care, support, and significant life improvements. The core question for diagnosis is: what can be done next? That is why Relatix Bio focuses on supporting you – for free – throughout your life, and providing a blended approach; self-assessment, input from a carer/supporter, and questions that feel relevant to daily life, in order to build a practical pathway for life-long self-support and wellbeing. Over time, we aim to learn from you, and help to identify and refine interventions directly adapted to a your particular needs. A lot of new innovation is happening in this field right now, which is set to improve many lives. So let’s celebrate our strengths, and ways of being and living that are, proudly, radically different.