MSE Practice Flashcards
MSE Scenarios
Appearance in Depression
May begin to neglect personal hygiene and grooming, dresses in drab colours
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Behaviour in Depression
Agitation, restlessness, marked fatigue, stooped posture and wringing, socially withdrawn and in severe depression psychomotor retardation.
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Speech in Depression
Decreased rate and rhythm, mutism, increased latency, soft, monotonous.
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Affect in Depression
Flat, constricted
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Mood in Depression
Document their mood using the patient’s self report: down, depressed, sad, blue, unhappy
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Thought in Depression
Poverty of ideas, poor concentration. Content: Thoughts of worthlessness, hopelessness, suicidal ideation, inappropriate guilt. Occasionally mood congruent delusions.
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Perception in Psychotic depression
Occasionally mood congruent hallucinations
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Cognition in Depression
Memory gaps due to concentration
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Insight in Depression
May range from impaired to good
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Judgement in Depression
Impaired by negative thoughts
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Appearance in Anxiety
Ranges from fastidious to disheveled
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Behaviour in Axiety
Psychomotor agitation, tremor, fidgety, hyper-vigilant, frozen with fear, avoidant, limited cooperation
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Speech in Axiety
Pressured but interruptible or poverty of speech
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Affect in Axiety
Anxious, scared, labile, irritable, angry
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Mood in Axiety
Document their mood using the patient’s self report: angry, anxious