Ch 7 Flashcards
Repeatedly thinking about concerns or details of past events
Rumination
A mood state involving extreme confidence and exaggerated feelings of energy and well-being
Elevated mood
A milder form of mania involving increased levels of activity and goal-directed behaviors combined with an elevated, expansive, or irritable mood
Hypomania
Person may feel extremely confident or self important and behave impulsively
Expansive mood
A mental state characterized by very exaggerated activity and emotions including euphoria, excessive excitement, or irritability that result in impairment in social or occupational functioning
Mania
An exceptionally elevated mood; exaggerated feeling of well-being
Euphoria
A condition involving loss of contact with or distorted view of reality
Psychosis
Unstable and rapidly changing emotions and mood
Emotional lability
An overvaluation of one’s significance or importance
Grandiosity
Rapid, frenzied, or loud, disjointed communication
Pressured speech
Rapidly changing or disjointed thoughts
Flight of ideas
A condition diagnosed if someone (without a history of hypomania/ mania) experiences a depressive episode involving severe depression symptoms that have negatively affected functioning most of the day, nearly every day, for at least 2 full weeks
Major depressive disorder (MDD)
A period involving severe depressive symptoms that have impaired functioning for at least 2 full weeks
Major depressive episode
A condition involving chronic depressive symptoms that are present most of the day for more days than not during a 2 year period with no more than 2-month symptom-free
Persistent depressive disorder (dysthymia)
A condition involving distressing and disruptive symptoms of depression, irritability, and tension that occur the week before menstruation
Premenstrual dysphoric disorder