Abnormal Behavior Flashcards
Believing that hidden messages being sent
Delusions of reference
Believing you are someone powerful or important
Delusions of grandeur
Believing that spies/aliens/government or even neighbors are plotting against you
Delusions of persecution
Hallucinations, delusions, word salad, inappropriate emotions
Positive Schizophrenia symptoms
Flattened emotion and speech, apathy, disinterest in life
Negative Schizophrenia symptoms
Elated mood, irritability, racing thoughts, feelings of undue power
Mania symptoms
Sadness, lack of interest in activities, disinterest interacting with others, frequent crying, guilt and worthlessness
Depression symptoms
One experienced repeated episodes of mania and depression
Bipolar I disorder
One doesn’t develop severe mania, instead hypomania: a more moderate form - hypomania and depression alternate
Bipolar II
Inability to recall past experiences/information - response to a traumatic or stressful situation
Dissociative amnesia
Suddenly leaving home and taking on a new identity with no memory of a former life
Dissociative fugue
Paralysis, blindness, deafness, or other loss of sensation with no discernible physical cause
Conversion disorder
High levels of suspicion around motives and intentions of others, but without paranoid delusions
Paranoid personality disorder
Bring aloof and distant from others with shallow or blunted emotions
Schizoid personality disorder
Excessive dramatic and egocentric, attention seeking behavior
Histrionic personality disorder