mood disorders

Question 1

euthymic

Answer 1

normal mood

Question 2

dysthymic

Answer 2

chronic state of low mood, usually with insidious onset and lasting >2 years

Question 3

hyperthymic

Answer 3

predominantly euphoric

Question 4

cyclothymia

Answer 4

cyclic mood

associated with bipolar

Question 5

alexthymia

Answer 5

an inability to express ones emotions

Question 6

depolarisation

Answer 6

a peculiar change in the awareness of self in which the individual feels as if they are not real and detached
they may feel that they have changed and the world around them is vague, dreamlike or lacking significance
insight is retained

think ‘cold hearted’

Question 7

anhedonia

Answer 7

a complete inability to enjoy anything in life

Question 8

euphoria

Answer 8

undue cheerfulness and elation

Associated with mania

Question 9

apethy

Answer 9

lack/absence of emotion or interest

Question 10

affect

Answer 10

observational pattern of behaviour that expresses the subjective emotional state of the individual
is there a change in emotion with topics and is it appropriate?

Question 11

blunted affect

Answer 11

dulling of normal emotional response

Question 12

labile effect

Answer 12

sudden rapid shifts in affect

Question 13

emotional incontinence

Answer 13

complete loss of control over affect

Question 14

dissociation of affect

Answer 14

affect is inappropriate to thought content

Question 15

incongruent affect

Answer 15

affect is inappropriate to magnitude of events