Mood & Affect, Bipolar & Depression Flashcards
Feeling responses to a wide variety of stimuli
Emotions
Person’s internal, subjective, sustained emotional state.
Mood
Immediate emotional expression of mood that people communicate verbally and nonverbally. Can be externally observed & is more changeable state.
Affect
Affect is congruent with immediate situation.
Appropriate
Affect is not related to immediate situation.
“When Sue’s husband tells her about his terrible pain, she laughs out loud.”
Inappropriate
Shows range of emotional response appropriate to the situation or conversation.
Full range
Affect is resistant to sudden changes when there is no provocation in the environment.
Stable
Affect shifts suddenly in a way that cannot be understood in context of situation.
Labile
Affect is one of extreme elation not necessarily related to the immediate situation.
Elevated
Affect is one of despondency not necessarily related to the immediate situation.
Depressed
Affect is appropriate to the situation but out of proportion to the immediate situation.
Overreactive
Response to the immediate situation is dulled.
Blunted
There are no visible cues to the person’s emotions.
Flat
Abnormal, persistent expansive, elevated mood that lasts a week or more and that significantly impairs functioning to extent requiring hospitalization.
Mania
Less extreme form of mania. Mood that lasts less than a week: its symptoms, although significant do not rise to level of requiring hospitalization. NO psychotic features.
Hypomania