Terms for psychosis/mood&affect Flashcards
Individual’s ability to perform ADLs and IADLs independently
Functional status
Rapid and intense fluctuations in mood and emotional states. It involves frequent shifts between different emotions, often within a short period of time
Affective instability
Mood disorder characterized by persistent feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and loss of interest in activities once enjoyed
Depression
Period of abnormally and persistently elevated, expansive or irritable mood and abnormally increased goal-directed activity or energy levels. Varying degrees of perceptual disturbances
Mania
State of profound sadness, dejection, and depression. Characterized by lingering feeling of floom, despondency, and a lack of joy or interest in activities that were once pleasurable
Melancholy
Reduced ability or inability to experience pleasure or enjoyment from activities that were previously rewarding (alteration in speech)
Anhedonia
Lack of motivation (alteration in speech)
Avolition
Does not speak (alteration in speech)
Mutism
Never getting to “the point” or finishing a story (alteration in speech)
Tangentiality
Can not tell a story without adding so many circumstances to the story which causes the listener to not be able to follow the story (alteration in speech)
Circumstantiality
Using a bunch of words in a sentence that don’t belong together (alteration in speech)
Word salad
Repeats the same action over and over and/or repeats everything someone else is doing
Echopraxia
Repeats same phrase over and over and/or repeats everything someone says
Echolalia
Using rhyming words that may not even exist
Clang associations
Taking idioms/sayings literal
Concrete thinking
Using made up words
Neologisms
Jumping from one subject to another
Associative looseness
Belief of a special relationship with a higher power or belief they are the higher power
Religious (Delusional Disorder)
Irrational belief of having physical problem(s) but nothing is medically wrong
Somatic (Delusional Disorder)
Irrational belief TV, songs, etc. are being directed specifically to them
Referential (Delusional Disorder)
Belief of always being done wrong
Persecutory (Delusional Disorder)
Belief of increased power/worth
Grandiose (Delusional Disorder)
Schizophrenic symptoms with mania and/or depression
Schizoaffective
Same as schizophrenia except time factor. Duration is at least one month, but less than 6 months.
Schizophreniform
One or more delusions or frequently auditory hallucinations, suspiciousness
Paranoia
Marked abnormalities in motor behavior, may be manifested by stupor or excitement.
Catatonic
Sudden onset of psychotic symptoms. May last a day, no longer than one month. Does return to premorbid level of functioning.
Brief psychotic
