Cognitive
The patient is having a hard time remembering their hygiene so the nurse puts a picture of a toothbrush in the bathroom.
What is memory impairment?
When asked to line up for group therapy, this patient very slowly ascends and very slowly walks to the back of the line.
What is motor retardation
Patient states that the demons are sitting on his chest.
What is symbolic speech?
The patient won't go into the room for group therapy and says that there are FBI spies in there.
What is persecutory/paranoid delusion?
The patient keeps touching the walls and when asked why they keep doing that, they state, "This wall is not moving right?"
What is reality testing?
The physician asks the patient if they would like to go home but the patient tells them that they can't because all the doors are lock.
What is concrete thinking?
A PCT's hair is falling forward in her face so she decided to pull it into a ponytail, at the same time she sees out of the corner of her eye a patient mimicking her exact same movements despite the patient having no hair.
What is Echopraxia?
The PCT states, "It's time for lunch!". A patient repeats, "Time for lunch."
What is echolalia?
When asked for what the patient does for a living, they state that they are "the Queen of England, and already have money so they don't need to work."
What are grandiose delusions?
The patient states that they feel like the government is putting thoughts into their head.
What is thought insertion?
The nurse tells the patient with schizophrenia that it is time to get up and go to breakfast, but the patient feels overwhelmed and lays in the bed.
What is Impaired executive functioning?
When the nurse comes around the corner, she notices a patient in the corner banging their head on the wall.
What is stereotyped behaviors?
A patient calls out, "The toilet is parked on CIA's most wanted list."
What is associative looseness?
When asked why the patient keeps scratching their head, despite it being assessed and everything was normal, they say they feel the aliens crawling under their scalp.
What are somatic delusions?
While giving a patient medication, the patient asks the nurse to not look at him. When the nurse says that they have to watch to make sure that they take their medication given to them, the patient states, "no it's not, you are attracted to me, aren't you."
What is Erotomanic delusions?
The physician asks the patient what brought them to the hospital today and the patient responds just before the physician goes to ask another assessment question.
What is impaired information processing?
Every time the patient is told that the physician would like to see them in the conference room, the patient remains seated. Eventually, the patient gets up but goes to the bathroom instead of the door.
What is negativism?
The physician asks the patient how they are feeling today. The patient responds, "He rained the train brain grain strain the crane on main to detain."
What is Clang Associations?
During therapy the patient states, "I ate Wheaties on 9/11 and that is why the towers fell."
What is referential delusions?
When asked by the physician what their home life was like growing up, the patients says that information was removed by his last hospitalization.
What is thought deletion?
This patient doesn't understand why they are in the mental facility because nothing is wrong with them despite all the symptoms the physician and staff can clearly assess.
What is Anosognosia?
Since the nurse arrived on the unit, the patient has stayed the the same chair with the same posture and has not moved a muscle in three hours. They are really concerned for circulation, pneumonia, malnutrition, dehydration, and blood clots.
What is Catatonia?
When asked to join group, the patient states, "I don't understand why everyone is so grumpicated to me."
What is Neologisms?
When asked why the patient won't eat breakfast, the patient states that they are dead and ghosts don't eat.
What is nihilistic delusions?
No matter how much the nurses and the techs tells the patient to not touch other people's things, the patient still pick up the other patient's food and drinks and eat them.
What is boundary impairment?