Signs and Symptoms of Mental Disorder Flashcards
Consciousness
State of awareness
Apperception
Perception modified by one’s own emotions and thoughts.
Sensorium
State of functioning of special senses
A. Disturbances of Consciousness Organic Pathology
- Disorientation
- Clouding of Consciousness
- Stupor
- Delirium
- Coma
- Coma Vigil
- Twilight State
- Somnolence
Disorientation
Disturbance of orientation in time, place, or person.
Clouding of Consciousness
Incomplete clear mindedness with disturbance in perception.
Stupor
lack of reaction to an awareness of surroundings
Delirium
Bewildered reaction associated with fear and hallucinations
Coma
Profound degree of unconsciousness
Coma Vigil
Coma in which patient is asleep but ready to be aroused.
Twilight State
disturbed consciousness with hallucination
Somnolence
abnormal drowsiness
B. Disturbances in ATTENTION
- Distractibility
- Selective Inattention
- Hypervigilance
Attention
the amount of EFFORT EXERTED in focusing portions of experience
Distractibility
inability to concentrate attention
Selective Inattention
blocking out those things that generate anxiety
Hypervigilance
EXCESSIVE ATTENTION AND FOCUS
C. Disturbance in SUGGESTIBILITY
complaint and uncritical response to an idea or influence
- Folie a deux
- Hypnosis
Folie a deux /Folie a trois
communicate emotional illness between two or more person’s
Hypnosis
artificially induced modification of consciousness
II. EMOTION
the complex feeling with psychic, somatic, and behavioral components related to affect and mood
A. AFFECT
the expression of emotion as observed by others
Types of Affect
- Inappropriate Affect- dis harmony between the emotional feeling tone and idea accompanying it.
- Blunt Affect- Affect disturbance manifested by a severe reduction in the intensity of externalized feeling tone.
- Flat Affect- absence of any signs of affective expression.
- Labile Affect- rapid and abrupt changes in emotional feeling tone
B. MOOD
sustained emotion, subjectively experienced and reported
Types of MOOD
- Dysphoric Mood- unpleasant
- Euthymic Mood- normal range
- Expansive Mood- expression without restraint
- Irritable Mood- easily annoyed
- Mood Swing- oscillation between euphoria and depression
- Elevated Mood- air of confidence
- Euphoria- intense elation
- Ecstacy- intense rapture
- Depression- psychopathological feeling of sadness
- Anhedonia- loss of interest and withdrawal
- Grief- sadness of real loss
- Alexithymia- difficulty I’m describing emotions
C. Other Emotions
- Anxiety- feeling of apprehension
- Free-Floating Anxiety- unfocused fear
- Fear- anxiety cause by recognized and realistic danger
- Agitation- severe anxiety associated with motor restlessness
- Tension- increase motor and psychological activity-unpleasant
- Panic- intense attracts of anxiety
- Apathy- dulled emotional tone
- Ambivalence- coexistence of two opposing impulses
D. Physiological Disturbances Associated with Mood
- Anorexia- loss of decrease of appetite
- Hyperphagia- increase in appetite
- Insomnia- diminished ability to sleep
• Initial
•Middle
•Terminal - Hypersomnia- excessive sleeping
- Diurnal Variation- mood is regularly worst in the morning.
III. Motor Behavior (Conation)
aspect of psyche that includes impulses, motivations, wishes, drives, instincts, craving as expressed by behavior or moto activity
Echopraxia
pathological imitation of movements if one person by another
Catatonia
motor anomalies
Types of Catatonia
a. Catalepsy- immobile position
b. Catatonic Excitement- purposeless motor activity
c. Catatonic Stupor- markedly slowed motor activity
d. Catatonic Rigidity- voluntary assumption of Ridgid posture
e. Waxy flexibility- the patient can be molded into position
Negativism
motiveless resistance to all attempts to be moved
Cataplexy
temporary loss of muscle tone
Automatism
automatic performance of an act
Command Automatism
automatic following of suggestions
Mutism
Voiceless without structural abnormalities
Overactivity
a. Psychomotor Agitation- excessive motor and cognitive overactivity
b. TIC- involuntary, spasmodic motor movement
c. Somnambolism- motor activity during sleep
d. Compulsion- uncontrollable impulse to perform an act repetitively
Types of COMPULSION
•Dipsomania- compulsion to drink alcohol
•Kleptomania- compulsion to steal
•Nymphomania- excessive need for coitus in a woman
•Satyriasis- excessive need for coitus in a man
•Trichotillomania- compulsion to pull out one’s hair.
•Ritual- compulsive in nature