Mood & Affect, Bipolar & Depression

Question 1

Feeling responses to a wide variety of stimuli

Answer 1

Emotions

Question 2

Person’s internal, subjective, sustained emotional state.

Answer 2

Mood

Question 3

Immediate emotional expression of mood that people communicate verbally and nonverbally. Can be externally observed & is more changeable state.

Answer 3

Affect

Question 4

Affect is congruent with immediate situation.

Answer 4

Appropriate

Question 5

Affect is not related to immediate situation.

“When Sue’s husband tells her about his terrible pain, she laughs out loud.”

Answer 5

Inappropriate

Question 6

Shows range of emotional response appropriate to the situation or conversation.

Answer 6

Full range

Question 7

Affect is resistant to sudden changes when there is no provocation in the environment.

Answer 7

Stable

Question 8

Affect shifts suddenly in a way that cannot be understood in context of situation.

Answer 8

Labile

Question 9

Affect is one of extreme elation not necessarily related to the immediate situation.

Answer 9

Elevated

Question 10

Affect is one of despondency not necessarily related to the immediate situation.

Answer 10

Depressed

Question 11

Affect is appropriate to the situation but out of proportion to the immediate situation.

Answer 11

Overreactive

Question 12

Response to the immediate situation is dulled.

Answer 12

Blunted

Question 13

There are no visible cues to the person’s emotions.

Answer 13

Flat

Question 14

Abnormal, persistent expansive, elevated mood that lasts a week or more and that significantly impairs functioning to extent requiring hospitalization.

Answer 14

Mania

Question 15

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.

Answer 15

Hypomania

Question 16

A combination of symptoms often associated with anxiety, including restlessness, impaired concentration r/t worry, fear.

Answer 16

Anxious distress

Question 17

directed toward getting what one wants without considering the feelings of others.

Answer 17

Aggressive behavior

Question 18

Consists of avoiding conflict at any cost, even at expense of one’s own happiness.

Answer 18

Passive behavior

Question 19

Expressing one’s wishes and opinions, or taking care of oneself, but not at the expense of others.

Answer 19

Assertive behavior

Question 20

Consists of 1+ manic or mixed episodes, and course of illness usually accompanied by major depressive episode.

Answer 20

Bipolar I

Question 21

Consists of 1+ major depressive episode accompanied by at least one hypomanic episode.

Answer 21

Bipolar II

Question 22

Rapidly changing, fragmented thoughts, pressured speech patterns & increasing goal-directed activities.

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Flight of ideas

Question 23

Disorder characterized by sad or despondent mood or loss of interest in usual activities.

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Depression

Question 24

Characterized by a change in several aspects of an individual’s emotional state & functioning consistently over a period of 14+ days.
may consist of a single episode or recurrent.

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Major depressive disorder

Question 25

Physical complaints are also called what?

Answer 25

Somatic complaints

Question 26

Refers to waking up during the night and having difficulty falling asleep again.

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Middle insomnia

Question 27

Refers to waking at the end of the night and being unable to return to sleep.

Answer 27

Terminal insomnia

Question 28

Where person sleeps for prolonged periods at night as well as during the day but still is fatigued.

Answer 28

Hypersomnia

Question 29

Fatigue & decreased energy may also be called what?

Answer 29

Anergy or anergia

Question 30

Body movements are noticeably slowed and speed is slowed or absent.

Answer 30

Psychomotor retardation

Question 31

Chronic depression for majority of days for at least 2 years (1 year for kids and teens)

Answer 31

Persistent Depressive Disorder | AKA dysthymic disorder