Psychiatric Symptoms Flashcards
Cognitive
Affective
Behaviorla symptoms
Cog - through process or content
Aff - feelings and emotions
Behav - action
Signs vs. symptoms
Signs - objective findings
Symp - subjective complaints by the physician
Primary vs secondary process thinking and what looks like primary
Primary is not logical and could be fantastic and unreal
Secondary content tied to reality
Disorders of thought process or content are similar
Tangentiality
Loose assocations
Circumstantiality
Tan - sequential wander away from inital but are connected to each other
Loose - more severe disorg of sequential thoughts
Circum - gorssly over-produtctive throughts related to topic but excessive
All dz of thought process
Thought blocking
Flight of ideas
Poverty of speech
Sequence abruptly sdtops
Rapid, continous expression of ideas seen in mania
Alogia - thinking seems to be impoverished with a lack of ideas or content
All thgout hprocess
False ideas/beliefs
False perceptions
Deluision - believes things diffeent from ideas or beliefs of peers
Sensory or perceptual experiences…illusions/hallucinations
Persecution GRanduer Religiosity Reference Thougth insertion
People out to get me Because I'm the pope God has chosen me People on radio talking about me Someone putting thoguhtsin my mind
Signs of delusional severity
Long held
Complex, systematzed
Lead to action
Doubt is a healthy sign
Obsessions
Compulsions
Overvalued ideas
Phobias
Recurring, unwanted preoccupations
Unwanted impulses to do things
Beliefs held with abnormal intensity
Irrational fears of particular things
Illusions
Hallucinations
Sensory or perceptula that involve misinterpretation of an extenral stimulus (with or without illness)
Sensory or perceptual without external stimulus (usually with illness/intox)
Auditory
Visual
Somatic
Olfact/gust hallcu
Most common
Intox
Delirium tremens
Depression signs
Suicide risk
Loss of appetite, sleep ,libido, energy level
Other depression
Anhedonia
Sadness
worrying
Worthlessness, hopelessness, helplessness
Mania signs and symptoms
Risk of bad decision making
Appetite normal
Too busy to sleep
Heightened libido
Super energetic
Anxeity
Subjective feelings of unfounded dread
Heart racing and stomach upset
