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Symptom Sorter
Defense Mechanisms or Cognitive Distortion?
Let's Assess
100

No longer finding pleasure in the things one used to enjoy.

What is ANHEDONIA?

100

How many hours a child under 9 can be held in seclusion or restraint on a single order?

What is 1?

100

The specific disorder where you would most likely see with hypomania.

What is bipolar 2?

100

Assuming a pattern of outcomes based on 1 experience. Example: I failed one test - I will never be a nurse!

What is a cognitive distortion - Overgeneralization?

100

The word to document when the patient exhibits mimicking movements. 

What is echopraxia?

200

Lacking the motivation to complete basic tasks such as ADL's. 

What is AVOLITION?

200

The legal blood alcohol level for intoxication?

What is 0.08?

200

The specific disorder where you most likely see paranoid delusions.

What is schizophrenia?

200

Returning to a prior stage of development. Example - A child who has been potty trained begins to have "accidents" after a traumatic event.

What is a defense mechanism - Regression?
200

The word to document when the patient exhibits severely limited movement or very purposeless movement?

What is Catatonia?

300

Loss of the ability to do basic motor activities such as brushing your teeth.

What is APRAXIA?

300

How many drinks a 137 pound female can have on an empty stomach before she likely hits the blood alcohol legal limit?

What is 3?

300

The specific disorder where you would most likely see splitting, self-harm and the use of DBT.

What is borderline personality disorder?

300
Attributing/assigning unacceptable thoughts/behaviors from SELF onto someone ELSE.

What is a defense mechanism - Projection?

300

The word to document when the patient exhibits the use of rhyming words when talking.

What is clanging?

400

Inability to recognize familiar objects and their purpose.

What is AGNOSIA?

400

The lower limit of the lithium therapeutic range.

What is 0.5?

400

The specific disorder where you would see La Belle Indifference.

What is functional neurological symptom disorder or "conversion disorder"?

400

Extreme examples of splitting where something is all bad or all good. Example - I was on a diet, but ate a donut at breakfast, my diet is ruined for the whole day, so I might as well eat everything I want.

What is a cognitive distortion - All or nothing/Black or White/Dichotomous? 

400

The word to document when the patient exhibits making up things to fill in blanks in memory.

What is confabulation?

500

Difficulty expressing or identifying emotions.

What is ALEXITHYMIA?

500

After this point, following a traumatic event, if symptoms persist, the diagnosis might change from Acute stress disorder to PTSD. 

What is 1 month? 

500

The specific disorder where you would most likely see amnesia and travel away from home. 

What is dissociative fugue?

500

The removal of the emotional component of a situation, focusing only on facts/tasks etc. 

What is a defense mechanism - Intellectualization? 

500

The word to document when the patient exhibits irrational thoughts about being dead or dying.

What is nihilistic delusions?