Mental State Indicators And Behaviour

Question 1

Irritability

Answer 1

Marked increase in being short tempered or easily upset

Question 2

Hallucinations

Hearing= Auditory Hallucinations
Seeing= Visual Hallucinations
Feeling= Tactile Hallucinations
Tasting= Gustatory Hallucinations

Answer 2

False sensory perceptions, of any type, with or without insight, without corresponding stimuli. These may occur in one or more of the senses.

Question 3

Command Hallucinations

Answer 3

Hallucinations directing the person to do something or to act in a particular manner.

Command Hallucinations are separated from the others because of their severity and the potential lethality of the person acts on them

Question 4

Delusions

Answer 4

Fixed, false, unchangeable beliefs of any of the following types

1. Delusions of grandeur
2. Paranoid or persecutors delusions
3. Somatic delusions

Question 5

Delusions of Grandeur

Answer 5

A false belief characterized by one exaggerated sense of one’s own importance

Question 6

Paranoid or Persecutory delusions

Answer 6

A false belief of being attacked, harassed, cheated, persecuted or conspired against.

Question 7

Somatic Delusions

Answer 7

A false belief related to the body, such as believing that one has cancer, despite exhaustive negative testing.

Question 8

Hperarousal

Answer 8

Observations of motor excitation, unusually high activity or increased reactivity

Question 9

Pressured speech or racing thoughts

Answer 9

Rapid speech or rapid transition from topic to topic.

Question 10

Abnormal thought process

Answer 10

Objective observations that indicate abnormalities in the manner in which the person is expressing thoughts. Include indicators such as loosening of associations, thought blocking, flight of ideas, tangentiality, circumstantiality, clang association, incoherence, neologism and punning.

Question 11

Loose associations

Answer 11

The person jumps from one topic to another without an apparent connection between the topics

Question 12

Thought blocking

Answer 12

The person suddenly stops in the middle of a sentence and is unable to recover what he or she intended to say or to complete the thought

Question 13

Flight of ideas

Answer 13

The person’s thoughts are expressed quickly with frequent shifts in topic

Question 14

Tangentiality

Answer 14

The person digresses from the subject under discussion and introduces thoughts that seem unrelated, oblique, or irrelevant

Question 15

Circumstantiality

Answer 15

The person incorporates an unnecessary, excessive amount of details but eventually gets to the point he or she wants to express

Question 16

Clang association

Answer 16

The person uses groups of words that are similar in sound, often rhyming, connections between the meanings of the words are tenuous

Question 17

Incoherence

Answer 17

The person’s speech is unclear or confused. The communication does not make sense to the listener.

Question 18

Neologism

Answer 18

The person makes up a word, which may be condensed from several words. Neologisms are unintelligible to the listener

Question 19

Punning

Answer 19

The person will often play on word, for example, use words that are similar in sound but different in meaning or use words that have two or more meaning.

Question 20

Socially inappropriate or disruptive behaviour

Answer 20

For example, made disruptive sounds or noises, screamed out smeared or threw food or feces, hoarded, rummaged through other’s belongings.

Question 21

Verbal abuse

Answer 21

For example, others were threatened, screamed at, cursed at.

Question 22

Intoxication by drug or alcohol

Answer 22

A condition following alcohol or drug consumption in which the person experiences one or more of the following: slurred speech, lack of coordination, unsteady gait, attention or memory difficulties impaired judgement, stupor or coma.