Disordered Thinking

Question 1

what is the difference between thought form and thought content

Answer 1

thought form= how thoughts link together

thought content= contents of your thoughts

Question 2

what is the difference between overvalued ideas and obsessions

Answer 2

overvalued ideas= thoughts that people have that people don’t often have but are not problematic

obsessions= thoughts that you don’t want to have but can’t get rid of- often problematic

Question 3

persecutory thoughts vs paranoia vs grandiosity vs nihilism

Answer 3

paranoia= people are against me

persecutory thought= people are out to harm me

grandiosity= I am the best

nihilism= I am dead

Question 4

what is a delusion

Answer 4

fixed, unshakable belief

despite evidence to the contrary

not held by others in the same culture

held with intense personal conviction

Question 5

what is the difference between a hallucination and an illusion

Answer 5

hallucination= a perceptual experience without a stimulus that appears subjectively real

illusion= a false perception of a real stimulus

Question 6

what are 3 psychotic symptoms that would lean you more towards a diagnosis of schizophrenia

Answer 6

thought withdrawal
thought insertion
thought broadcast

Question 7

what are the 3 types of symptoms that can occur in psychosis

Answer 7

thought disorder

delusion

hallucination