MENTAL HEALTH EXAMINATION

Question 1

what is echopraxia?

Answer 1

automatic imitation of another’s movements

Question 2

what are tics?

Answer 2

repeated irregular movements involving a muscle group.

Question 3

what is posturing?

Answer 3

where the patient adopts a bizarre posture for a long time.

Question 4

what is stupor?

Answer 4

mute, immobile, fully conscious

Question 5

what is depressive retardation?

Answer 5

lesser form of psychomotor retardation seen in depression

Question 6

what is obsessional slowness?

Answer 6

secondary to repeated doubts and compulsive rituals

Question 7

what is dysarthria?

Answer 7

difficulty in articulation of speech

Question 8

what is flight of ideas?

Answer 8

accelerated thoughts, abrupt changes of topic, no central direction

Question 9

what is neologism?

Answer 9

a new word constructed by patient or everyday word used in special way

Question 10

what is echolalia?

Answer 10

automatic imitation by patient of another person’s speech even when they don’t understand it

Question 11

what is thought blocking?

Answer 11

sudden interruption in train of thought leaving a “blank” and the patient cannot recall what he had been saying or thinking

Question 12

what is knights move thinking?

Answer 12

odd associations between ideas leading to disruptions in continuity of speech

Question 13

what is psychosis?

Answer 13

an abnormal condition of the mind with a loss of contact with reality

Question 14

what is an objective assessment based on

?

Answer 14

history, appearance, behaviour and posture of patient

Question 15

what is a subjective assessment based on?

Answer 15

patient’s description

Question 16

what is a dysphoric mood?

Answer 16

an unpleasant mood

Question 17

what is anhedonia?

Answer 17

– loss of ability and interest in regular and . pleasurable activities.

Question 18

what is euphoria?

Answer 18

a personal feeling of unconcern and contentment

Question 19

what is elation?

Answer 19

an elevated mood or exaggerated feeling of well-being

Question 20

what is an irritable mood?

Answer 20

presents with tendency to be annoyed and provoked to anger

Question 21

what is phobic anxiety?

Answer 21

an individual to experience extreme, irrational fear about a situation, living creature, place, or object

Question 22

what is ‘affect’?

Answer 22

a pattern of observable behaviours that is the expression of emotion,

Question 23

what is flat affect?

Answer 23

total or almost total absence of signs of expression of affect

Question 24

what are hypochondriasis?

Answer 24

a preoccupation with the fear of having a serious illness

Question 25

what are obsessions?

Answer 25

repetitive senseless thoughts that are recognised as irrational by patient and usually resisted.

Question 26

what are phobias?

Answer 26

Persistent irrational fear of an activity, object or situation, leading to avoidance

Question 27

what are overvalued ideas?

Answer 27

Unreasonable and sustained intense preoccupation maintained with less than delusional intensity. The idea or belief is clearly false and not one held by others in the subculture.

Question 28

what are delusions?

Answer 28

Fixed, false personal belief based on incorrect inference about external reality firmly sustained in spite of what almost everyone else believes and obvious proof or evidence to the contrary.

Question 29

what are primary and secondary delusions?

Answer 29

Primary delusions, or autochthonous, are autonomous, original, and incomprehensible from a psychological point of view. Secondary delusions arise from a previous abnormal experience

Question 30

what is passive phenomena?

Answer 30

belief an external agency controlling oneself

Question 31

what is thought insertion?

Answer 31

thoughts being put into mind by external agency

Question 32

what is thought withdrawal?

Answer 32

thoughts removed from mind by external agency

Question 33

what is thought broadcasting?

Answer 33

thoughts being “read” by others

Question 34

what is an illusion?

Answer 34

false perception of a real external stimulus

Question 35

what is a hallucination?

Answer 35

false sensory perception in the absence of a real external stimulus

Question 36

what is depersonalisation?

Answer 36

patient feels altered or not real

Question 37

what is derealisation?

Answer 37

in which the surroundings do not seem real

Question 38

what questions could you ask about insight?

Answer 38

“Do you think you are ill?” “Do you think you have a mental illness?” “Do you think that treatment is necessary?”