Terms for psychosis/mood&affect

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Individual’s ability to perform ADLs and IADLs independently

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Functional status

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Rapid and intense fluctuations in mood and emotional states. It involves frequent shifts between different emotions, often within a short period of time

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Affective instability

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Mood disorder characterized by persistent feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and loss of interest in activities once enjoyed

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Depression

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Period of abnormally and persistently elevated, expansive or irritable mood and abnormally increased goal-directed activity or energy levels. Varying degrees of perceptual disturbances

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Mania

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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

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Melancholy

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Reduced ability or inability to experience pleasure or enjoyment from activities that were previously rewarding (alteration in speech)

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Anhedonia

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Lack of motivation (alteration in speech)

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Avolition

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Does not speak (alteration in speech)

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Mutism

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Never getting to “the point” or finishing a story (alteration in speech)

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Tangentiality

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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)

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Circumstantiality

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Using a bunch of words in a sentence that don’t belong together (alteration in speech)

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Word salad

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Repeats the same action over and over and/or repeats everything someone else is doing

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Echopraxia

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Repeats same phrase over and over and/or repeats everything someone says

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Echolalia

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Using rhyming words that may not even exist

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Clang associations

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Taking idioms/sayings literal

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Concrete thinking

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Using made up words

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Neologisms

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Jumping from one subject to another

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Associative looseness

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Belief of a special relationship with a higher power or belief they are the higher power

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Religious (Delusional Disorder)

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Irrational belief of having physical problem(s) but nothing is medically wrong

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Somatic (Delusional Disorder)

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Irrational belief TV, songs, etc. are being directed specifically to them

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Referential (Delusional Disorder)

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Belief of always being done wrong

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Persecutory (Delusional Disorder)

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Belief of increased power/worth

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Grandiose (Delusional Disorder)

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Schizophrenic symptoms with mania and/or depression

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Schizoaffective

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Same as schizophrenia except time factor. Duration is at least one month, but less than 6 months.

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Schizophreniform

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One or more delusions or frequently auditory hallucinations, suspiciousness

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Paranoia

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Marked abnormalities in motor behavior, may be manifested by stupor or excitement.

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Catatonic

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Sudden onset of psychotic symptoms. May last a day, no longer than one month. Does return to premorbid level of functioning.

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Brief psychotic