Common Psychotic Signs and Symptoms Flashcards
Something seems to be different from what it is
Illusion
False perception as the pertinent external stimuli is absent
Hallucination
Types of hallucination
Visual, Auditory, Tactile, Gustatory, Olfactory
Most common type of hallucination
Auditory
Word or phrases that has meaning only to the person using it; coining of new words
Neologism
Delay in getting the point because of the interpolation of unnecessary details and irrelevant remarks
Circumstantiality
Incoherent mixture of words and phrases
Word Salad
Pathological repetition of a sentence or word, senseless repetition of a goal-directed action, a particular response, such as words
Preservation
Involuntary repetition of sounds and language; parrot-like
Echolalia
Thoughts follow each other rapidly and there is no general direction of thinking
Flight of ideas
Jumping from one idea to another, with increasingly more fragmented connections between the thought
Looseness of association
Putting words together because of how they sound instead of what they mean
Clang Association
Fixed false belief based on an inaccurate interpretation of an external reality despite evidence to the contrary
Delusion
Delusion that believes that one’s sexual partner is unfaithful
Delusional Jealousy
Delusion that is impossible, unrelated
to normal life, and not understandable
Bizarre
Delusion that someone of higher status such as a movie star is in love with the individual
Erotomaniac
Delusion that individual has a great power, knowledge, or inflated self-worth
Grandiose
Delusion that involves bodily functions and sensations
Somatic
Delusion that others are harrassing, attacking, conspiring against, or obstructing the individual’s pursuit of long-term goals
Persecutory
Combination of various types of delusions
Mixed
Delusion that the individual’s thoughts are not their own but being placed in their mind by others
Thought insertion
Delusion that one’s thoughts are being projected and perceived by others
Thought broadcasting
Types of Affect
Blunted, Restricted, Labile, Flat, Shallow
2 opposing emotions; e.g. love and hate toward a person, object, or idea
Ambivalence
Lack of interest in life activities
Apathy
Feeling detached from one’s body, mind, feelings, sensation
Depersonalization
Feeling of being detached from surroundings
Derealization
Involuntary repetition of actions
Echopraxia
Tendency to remain in an immobile posture; decreased response to stimuli
Waxy Flexibility
Fabricated stories that fill in gaps in a person’s memory
Confabulation
Unable to recall autobiographical memory associated with traumatic event
Dissociative Amnesia
Unable to store new memory but able to recall data that happened previously
Anterograde Amnesia
Unable to access memories of events that happened in the past
Retrograde Amnesia
One has lived through present situation before
Deja Vu
Familiar does not seem familiar
Jamais Vu
