Personality Test Results in Suicide

Kaja Bordevich Ballo, aged 20, the daughter of Norwegian MP Olav Gunnar Ballo, committed suicide two months ago after been persuaded to take a free Scientology personality test. The family blames the Church of Scientology for her death and has decided to go public with the story. Ballo's Test results and suicide note were discovered after her death.
On March 28, 2008, Ballo, a student at the University of Nice took the Scientology personality test. A few hours later she killed herself by jumping from the window of her dormitory. Her friends and roommates claim she was in good spirits and showed no signs of a mental break down or depression prior to taking the test. The test was stamped and dated by the Church just hours prior to her suicide.

"I believe Kaja would have been alive today if she had not gone to the Scientologists," says friend and fellow student Henrik Møinichen, 19, to Dagbladet.

The Church, which is located only meters from Ballo's dormitory, states that the results had shown Ballo was "DEPRESSED, IRRESPONSIBLE, HYPER-CRITICAL and LACKING IN HARMONY" (results contrary what her friends and family report). The Church also states that it is "unfair to blame Scientology" for Ballo's death and that the test is not dangerous and had nothing to do with it. However, the Church has since REMOVED THE TEST from its Norwegian website (an action strongly suggesting the test was responsible for Kaja's death). Kaja left behind a note telling her family she was sorry for not "being good for anything."

The incident has generated criticism against the Church from friends, family members and politicians. Inga Marte Thorkildsen, one of the members of Norway's Parliament, told the Oslo newspaper Dagbladet that "All indications are that the Scientologist sect has played a direct role in Kaja's choice to take her own life."

Psychologists state that the "Oxford Personality Test" used by Scientology has no Scientific validity and that it is deliberately rigged to produce poor results. The candidate, in the face of a disappointing result, is then encouraged to buy expensive books and courses to "improve themselves". The test has no connection to Oxford University and the cult uses the title to give the test a false validity.