Mood or Affect
This type of mood is characterized by rapid speech, lack of concentration, decreased need for sleep yet increased energy, increase in impulsive behaviors, and/or substance abuse.
What is mania?
Thoughts, impulses, or images that persist and recur so that they cannot be dismissed from the mind
What are obsessions?
This type of speech adds unnecessary details when communicating with others but can eventually get to the point.
What is circumstantial speech?
Intense fear of something that poses little real danger
What is a phobia?
Medical condition in which physical symptoms can mimic cardiac symptoms.
What is a panic attack?
This type of mood is unable to find pleasure in anything, not interested in people or activities (lack of pleasure).
What is anhedonia?
Ritualistic behaviors an individual feels driven to perform in an attempt to reduce anxiety
What are compulsions?
Type of speech where there is a continuous flow of accelerated speech with abrupt changes from topic to topic.
What is flight of ideas?
False, fixed beliefs.
What are delusions?
Medical condition with a fear of places and situations that might cause panic, helplessness, and embarrassment.
What is agoraphobia?
The type of mood or affect is reduced or minimal emotional response.
What is blunted?
Assessment finding in a patient with major depression that presents a vegetative sign.
What is hypersomnia?
This type of speech involves stringing together words because of their rhyming sounds without regard to their meaning.
What are clang associations?
This type of behavior presents extreme activity, lack of rest, grandiose plans, poor judgment with financial limitations, distractibility, hyperactivity, and manipulation.
What is hypomania?
A medical condition in which a patient has 2 or more symptoms of decreased appetite or overeating, insomnia or hypersomnia, low energy, poor self-esteem, difficulty thinking, and hopelessness
What is a persistent depressive disorder?
This type of mood is characterized by loss of energy, feeling hopeless, trouble concentrating, irritability, trouble sleeping, and appetite changes.
What is depression?
A loss of motivation, difficulty beginning and sustaining goal-directed activities.
What is avolition?
The speech is reduced or considered a "poverty" of speech.
What is alogia?
A feeling of being unreal or losing identity, such as body parts, does not belong.
What is depersonalization?
A medical condition characterized by the presence of a history of at least one episode of intense mood shifts, such as euphoria, decreased need for sleep, and can progress into psychosis.
What is Bipolar I Disorder?
A patient has a lack of interest in things previously enjoyed leading to an inability to feel happy.
What is anhedonia?
A lack of insight or a symptom of a severe mental illness experienced by some that impair a person's ability to understand and perceive his or her illness.
What is anosognosia?
The type of speech has a pathological repetition of another's words.
What is echolalia?
The mimicking of movements of another.
What is echopraxia?
A medical condition with mild changes in thinking, reality testing, and mood as a prodromal phase with a subtle behavior change over time.
What is schizophrenia?