MSE Flashcards
Affect and Mood
Affect-
Flat or blunt
Full or broad
Congruent/ incongruent
Mood
Euphoric/elated—Normal/euthymic—depressed /dysphoric(irritable or angry)
Thought process
Form of thought
Logical
Circumstantial
Tangential
Loose association
Flight of ideas
Attention
Distractible
Preoccupied
Rumination
Speed of thought
Latent
Racing thought
Memory
Memory is intact
Amnesia
Anterograde
Retrograde
Consciousness
Dissociate
Regression
Motor
Agitated—hyperactive/restless—normal/relaxed—psychomotor retardation/hypoactive/apathetic— Catatonic
Speech
Speech
Regular rate and rhyme—pressure of speech
Laconic - terse or poverty of speech
Content — disorganise
Coprolalia - ticks and vague language
Ecollalia- autism- repeating questions.
Interpersonal -
Relationally driven behaviours
Contempt
Defensive
Dismissive
Grandiose
Guarded
Oppositional/defiant
Suggestive
Intrapersonal - internally driven behaviours
Ego
Syntonic- consistent with personality
Dystonic- behaviours inconsistent with personality
Ego- centrism
Conceited- arrogant and haughty
Grandiosity/ expansive
Ego strength
Intro punitive-
Splitting- diachotonous thinking, absolute or black or white thing
Cartastrophising - extremely negative thght
Psychosis
Delusion- fixed belief which is ideosyncrative to a person and it’s not share by others and outside the realm of realistic possibility.
Eg
Bizarre
Control
Persecutory
Grandiose
Infidelity
Eratomanic
Idea of Reference
Hallucination
Sensual perception that is experience by one but outside the realm of possibility.
Eg
Responding to internal stimuli
Again related to all the senses
Auditory- hearing
Visual- seeing
Olfactory- smell
Gustatory - taste
Tactile- touch
Appearance
Grooming
Unkempt- well groomed- immaculate
Dress
Undressed- appropriately- overdressed
