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- affect
- pattern of observable behavior that is an expression of emotions
- blunted (affect)
- reduction in intensity of emotional expression
- flat (affect)
- absence/near absence of affective expression
- inappropriate (affect)
- discordance between expression and content of speech
- labile (affect)
- abnormal variability in affect with shifts in emotional expression
- restricted (affect)
- mild reduction in intensity of emotional expression
- anxiety
- apprehensive anticipation of future danger/misfortune causing somatic symptoms like tension
- attention
- ability to focus in a sustained manner on a stimulus
- catatonic behavior
- motor abn such as motor immobility or excessive motor activity
- conversion symptoms
- loss of/alteration in vol motor or sensory function due to neuro comdition
- defense mechanism
- auto psych process that protects the individual from anxiety or danger/stressors
- delusion
- false belief in an incorrect inferrence of reality despite evidence to the contrary
- bizarre delusion
- delusion that is percieved by a person's culture as totally implausible
- delusional jealousy
- delusion that one's sexual partner is unfaithful
- erotomanic delusion
- delusion that someone of higher status is in love with them
- grandiose delusion
- delusion of an inflated self worth/power/knowledge
- delusion of being controlled
- delusion of feelings of being under control some external force and not under one's own control
- persecutory delusion
- delusion that one is being attacked, harrassed, cheated, conspired against
- somatic delusion
- delusion pertaining to function of ones body or the appearance
- thought broadcasting delusion
- delusion that one's thoughts are being broadcasted outside the mind for all to hear
- thought insertion delusion
- delusion that someone is inserting thoughts into one's mind and are not their own
- derailment
- pattern of speech in which the ideas slip off track to another unrelated subject
- dissociation
- disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness
- grandiosity
- inflated appraisal of ones self, worth,importance, or identity
- hallucination
- sensory perception that has a compelling sense of reality but occurs without stimuli from that sensory organ
- auditory hallucination
- hearing sounds mostly voices that are not really there
- visual hallucination
- images that are not really there
- illusions
- misperception of the visual stimuli
- ideas of reference
- feelings that casual accidents have a particular meaning
- incoherence
- speech or thinkiing that incomprehensible to others
- mood
- sustained emotion that colors the perception of the world
- dysphoric mood
- unpleasant feelings
- elevated mood
- exaggerated feelings of well-being or euphoria
- euthymic mood
- mood in normal range
- expansive mood
- lack of restaint in expressing feelings with overevaluation of the significance
- irritable mood
- easily annoyed or provoked to anger
- panic attacks
- periods of sudden onset of intense apprehension, fear, impending doom with symptoms of SOB, pounding heart, chest pain
- paranoid ideations
- ideation involving suspicion or belief one is being treated unfairly
- personality
- eduring patterns of percieving, relating to, and thinking about environment and one's self
- phobia
- irrational fear of a specific object, activity or situation
- prodrome
- early sign or symptom of a disorder
- psychotic
- impairment that grossly interferes with the capacity to meet ordinary demands of life. Can involve hallucinations, delusions, and symptoms of schizophrenia
- sign
- signs observed by medical examiner
- stressor
- life event that may be associated with onset of a mental d/o
- symptom
- feelings reported by patient to the examiner
- syndrome
- grouping of signs and symptoms with frequent occurrences and common underlying patho. cause with a treatment selection