MHA, MCA + definitions Flashcards
Dysthymia
Chronic low mood
Euthymia
Contented mood
Mood vs affect
Mood = sustained emotions Affect = short observable behaviour that expresses emotional state
Alexithymia
Inability to express your emotions
Illusion
False perception of a real stimulus
Depersonalisation vs derealisation
Depersonalisation = patient feels unreal or detached Derealisation = patient thinks the world isn't real
Pseudo-hallucination vs hallucination
Pseudo = perceptual experience but recognised by patient as not real Hallucination = perception in the absence of a stimulus
Thought echo
Patient experiences own thoughts as if they were spoken aloud
Delusional perception
Sensory stimulus is real but there is a delusional thought attached - primary delusion
Negative symptoms
Occur in chronic schizophrenia
Poverty of speech, flat affect, poor motivation, poor attention
Lability
Affect is rapidly changing
Delusion
Fixed, firmly held belief despite evidence to the contrary
Concrete thinking
Inability to understand abstract ideas - everything is taken literally
Ideas of reference
Delusional belief that innocuous events are directly linked/ have some significance
Perserveration
Repetition of particular response with absence of stimulus