Psychiatric Disorders Definitions Flashcards
A feeling or emotion manifested by facial expression or body language
Affect
Absence of interest in or pleasure from performance of acts that would ordinarily be enjoyable
Anhedonia
Medication designed to treat anxiety
Anxiolytic
Excessive eating beyond amount necessary to satisfy normal appetite
Binge
Syndrome of psychomotor retardation characterized by periods of physical rigidity and lack of response to outside stimuli
Catatonia
Uncontrollable impulses to perform an act, often repeatedly, as an unconscious mechanism to avoid unacceptable ideas or desires, which by themselves arouse anxiety
Compulsion
A false belief or wrong judgment held with conviction despite inconvertible evidence to the contrary
Delusion
Behavior that is neither goal directed or guided by rational or preconceived plan
Disorganized Behavior
Speech in which the statements are not logically connected to each other
Disorganized Speech
An unconscious separation of a group of mental processes from the rest of the conscious awareness
Dissociation
Disturbance in amount, quality, or timing of sleep
Dysomnia
Higher levels of cognitive/mental functioning including planning, abstraction, inductive reasoning, and organizing
Executive functioning
Subjective perception of an object or an event when no such stimulus or situation exists
Hallucination
A misinterpretation or false perception of a real sensory stimulus
Illusion
Sudden, often unreasonable, determination to perform some act, the performance of which often provides a sense of relief or a release of tension
Impulse
Inability to fall or stay asleep in absence of external impediments during the period when sleep should occur
Insomnia
Pervasive feeling, tone, or internal emotional state which, when impaired, can markedly influence virtually all aspects of a person’s behavior or perception of external events
Mood
State in which the individual interprets and regards everything in relation to himself and not to others
Narcissism
Recurrent and persistent idea, thought or impulse to carry out an act
Obsession
A belief system that includes extreme suspiciousness and mistrust of others
Paranoia
Abnormal increase in physical and emotional behavior
Psychomotor Agitation
Abnormal slowing in physical and emotional activity
Psychomotor Retardation
Mental and behavioral disorder causing gross distortion or disorganization of a person’s mental capacity; A defective response and capacity to recognize reality, communicate and relate to others to the degree of interfering with the person’s capacity to cope with ordinary demands of everyday life
Psychosis
To cause copious evacuation of the bowels and stomach by induction of vomiting, use of enemas, or laxatives
Purge
An event or situation that induces psychological, emotional or behavioral distress
Stressor
