SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS Flashcards
Signs and sx of mental illness.
- Sleep/appetite changes
- Mood changes
- withdrawal
- Drop in functioning (difficulty performing familiar tasks)
- Problem thinking (concentration and memory)
- Increased sensitivity (sight, sound, smell and touch)
- Apathy (loss of desire to participate in any activity)
- Feeling disconnected
- Illogical thinking
- Nervousness
- Unusual behaviours
What are the main warning signs of mental illness?
- excessive paranoia
- anxiety
- long lasting sadness or irritability
- extreme changes in mood
- social withdrawal
- dramatic changes in eating or sleeping patterns
Disorders of Mood
Affect
Constricted/Restricted
Blunted
Flat
Labile mood
Affect - the observed expression of emotion
Constricted/Restricted - reduction in intensity
Blunted- Severe reduction in intensity of affect
Flat - absence of any signs of expression of affect
Labile mood - rapid changes in emotional feeling tone unrelated to external stimuli
Euthymic
Irritable
Elation
Euphoria
Mania
Hypomania
Euthymic - normal range of mood
Irritable - easily annoyed
Elation - feelings of joy
Euphoria - intense feelings of joy
Mania - mood state characterized by elation, agitation, hyperactivity and accelerated thinking and speaking
Hypomania - less intense mania
Apathy
Anhedonia
La belle indifference
Apathy - lack of motivation to do anything
Anhedonia - inability to feel pleasurable activities
La belle indifference - lack of concern about one’s disability
Disturbances in Speech
Poverty of speech
Poverty of content of speech
Pressure of speech
Dysprosody
Poverty of speech - restriction in amount of speech used
Poverty of content of speech - adequate speech but conveys little information
Pressure of speech - rapid speech that is difficult to interrupt
Dysprosody - loss of normal speech melody (pseudo-foreign dialect)
Disorders of thinking
Thought form
Though content
*Disorders of the stream of Thought**
Pressure of thought
Poverty of thought
Thought block
Thought form- the way in which ideas are linked
Though content - the ideas
Pressure of thought - ideas pass through the mind quickly
Poverty of thought - few thought move through the mind slowly
Thought block - abrupt interruption in train of though before thought or idea is finished
Disorders in the form of thought
Flight of ideas
Circumstantiality
Derailment
Tangentiality
Flight of ideas - thought move abruptly from idea to idea
Circumstantiality - overinclusion of trivial/ irrelevant details
Derailment - gradual or sudden deviation in train of thought without blocking
Tangentiality - Inability to have a goal directed association of thought
Preservaration
Loosening of association
Word salad
Irrelevant ideas
Echolalia
Preservaration - persistent and inappropriate repetition of the same thought
Loosening of association - loss of normal structure of thinking
Word salad - incohrerent mixture of words and phrases
Irrelevant ideas - answer that is not in harmony with the questions asked
Echolalia - repetition of words or phrases of one person by another.
