Psychiatric- Level 1 Flashcards
Affect
The emotional tone a person expresses
Anxiety Reaction
A reaction to a feared situation or object; anxiety attack
Auditory Hallucinations
Hearing sounds or voices which are not real
Depressed
Persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest
Flat Affect
a severe reduction in emotional expressiveness; monotone; unemotional
Homicidal Ideation
Thoughts of harming or killing another person
Insomnia
Sleep disorder characterized by difficulty falling or staying asleep
Pressured Speech
Tendency to speak rapidly and frenziedly
Suicidal Ideation
Thoughts of harming or killing oneself
Tangential Thought
Train of thought of the speaker wanders with lack of focus or logical progressions
Visual Hallucinations
Seeing people or things which do not actually exist
Withdrawn
Not interested or participatory
