MSE Flashcards

1
Q

what do you write down for affect

A

fluctuate - stable or labile amount - normal blunted or flat range - restricted or expansive type - sad/ hostile/ euohoric

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2
Q

passivity

A

think that they are being controlled by someone else

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3
Q

what are psuedohallucinations

A

patient is aware its not real

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4
Q

what is thought broadcasting

A

belief that others can hear the patients thoughts

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5
Q

people are talking about me

A

paranoid delusion

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6
Q

“the child across the street has a remote control which controls what I do and say”

A

passivity

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7
Q

patient is looking around the room or talking to something that is not there

A

hallucinations

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8
Q

patient has no emotional expression at al

A

flat affect

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9
Q

have loads of plans and things they want to do

A

rapid thoughts

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10
Q

what do you write down for behaviour?

A

body language eye contact + facial expression h - arousal v slow or fact engagement

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11
Q

patient is one minute ecstatic the next minute crying

A

labile and expansive

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12
Q

affect

A

how they appear to feel

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13
Q

loosening of associations

A

flow from one topic to another very quickly

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14
Q

patient believes that the tv in the next room is people talking

A

illusion

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15
Q

grandiose delusion

A

believe they are amazing or have special powers

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16
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how would you describe a patient who has gone off topic and never gets back to it?

A

tangential

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17
Q

the neighbours and putting thoughts into my mind to try and control me

A

thought insertion

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18
Q

how would you describe a normal flow?

A

linear

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19
Q

patient keeps wanting to kill their baby but they hate thinking about it

A

obsessions

20
Q

ideas of reference

A

irrelevant occurances relate to themselves

21
Q

patient only seems to exibit one type of mood and cannot change to another

A

restricted affect

22
Q

flight of ideas

A

rapid thought

23
Q

what do you write down for speech?

A

tone amount loud or quite ketamine (increased rate and slurred)

24
Q

the radio is telling me the cure for cancer

A

ideas of reference

25
Q

keep jumping from topic to topic because one thing reminds them of something else (which is usually irrelevant)

A

loosening of association

26
Q

what is the oppsite of labile

A

stable

27
Q

what do you document in insight?

A

is the patient aware that they have a problem

28
Q

what do you write down for appearance?

A

4cs clothing catching cleanliness cutting

29
Q

what are illusions

A

misinterpreted perception such as mistaking a shadow for a person

30
Q

what would you write down for cognition?

A

concentration orientation short term memory test (moca/ ace) attention

31
Q

paranoid delusion s

A

people are talking about me

32
Q

what are obsessions

A

patient is aware that they are irrational but that doesn’t stop the thought coming into their head

33
Q

the neighbours are listening to my thoughts

A

thought broadcasting

34
Q

patient told good news and they don’t seem happy about it just the same

A

blunted affect

35
Q

the neighbours are removing my thoughts so I cannot plan an attack on them

A

thought withdrawal - pathological way of describing thought blocking

36
Q

what do you document in judgement

A

ask them what they would do if they could smell smoke in a house – see if they can problem solve

37
Q

patient who looks in the mirror and sees them to be fat when they are thin

A

overvalued ideas

38
Q

what is thought insertion

A

belief that thoughts can be put into the patienst mind

39
Q

what do you write down for thought?

A

form - speed/ flow (tangential/ circumstantial) content - violent/ self harming/ delusional/ obsessions new - withdrawal broadcasting insertion

40
Q

patient reports seeing people in her bedroom but says that she thinks it isn’t real its all in her head

A

psuedohallicinations

41
Q

what is overvalued ideas

A

perception of weight in a person with anorexia

42
Q

thing they can cure cancer

A

grandiose delusion

43
Q

what is thought withdrawal?

A

belief that thought are being removed from their heads

44
Q

how would you describe a patienst thoughts if they are talking gibberish and you cannot make out what they are meaning

A

incoherebt

45
Q

what do youwrite about a patients perceoption?

A

hallucinations psuedohallucinations illusions

46
Q

how would you describe a patient who stays on the topic but gives too much detaisl about it

A

circumstantial

47
Q

mood

A

how the patient reports that they feel?