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| Markedly slowed speech & body movements |
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| Mood, affect, or behavior that is subject to frequent or unpredictable changes (glossary) |
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| lack of emotional reaction; the incapacity for commitment & ascetic tendencies |
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| Normal, homeostatic mood state |
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| avoidance of disagreeable realities or threats by ignoring or refusing to recognize them; an unconscious defense mechanism that might not be adaptive |
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| Someone that is preoccupied with religion |
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| A false belief brought about without appropriate external stimulation and inconsistent with the individual’s own knowledge and experience. |
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| Oversuspiciousness leading to persecutory delusions |
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| A false sense of possessing wealth or power. One’s unrealistic and exaggerated concept of self-worth, importance, wealth and ability |
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| False belief involving functioning of one’s body |
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| A delusion that everything has ceased to exist |
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| A delusion that causes the patient to read an unintended meaning into the acts or words of others; often the interpretation is of slight or ridicule |
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| The false belief that one can control others |
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| Misinterpretation of sensory input; observed w/ alcoholic withdrawal, |
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False sensory perceptions not associated w/ real external stimuli (Varcarolis, p. 15)
*Auditory /Hearing voices when none are present
*Visual /seeing things that are not there
*Olfactory /smelling smells that do not exist
*Tactile /Feeling touch sensations in the absence of stimuli
*Gustatory/ Experiencing taste in absence of stimuli |
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| The state of being preoccupied; absorption of the attention or intellect. Something that preoccupies or engrosses the mind: |
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Pathologic persistence of an unwilled thought, feeling, or impulse to the extent that it cannot be eliminated from consciousness by logical effort.
Cant stop from thinking about something. |
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| Uncontrollable impulse to perform an act or ritual repeatedly; might be in response to an obsession, as in obsessive-compulsive disorder. The act or ritual serves to decrease anxiety. Examples include hand washing, cleaning, and checking (i.e. whether a door is locked) |
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| Speech pattern demonstrated by a rapid transition from topic to topic, frequently without completing any of the preceding ideas; prominent in manic states |
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| an aspect of thought disorder wherein the patient has difficulty sticking to one topic and drifts off on a train of associations evoked by an idea from the past. |
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| Digression of inappropriate thoughts into ideas, eventually reaching the desired goal. |
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| Ability to have goal-directed association of thought. never gets to desired goal from desired point. |
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| is characterized by regular interruptions in the stream of thought. This is more than simply losing one's place, it is a complete halt to the process of thought |
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A state in which two opposite strong feelings exist simultaneously-(love-hate) relationships. Schizophrenics patients might be immobilized by their ambivalence regarding a matter as simple as deciding whether to drink orange juice or apple juice for breakfast.
Unable to chose between two items |
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Involuntary repetition of the same thought, phrase, or motion response to different questions or situations associated with brain damage
How are you doing Harry”? Fine nurse, just fine. “Did you go for a walk Harry”? and Harry responds, fine nurse just fine. Are you going out today? And again, Harry responds, fine nurse, just fine? |
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| Words a person makes up that have meaning only for a person himself, often part of a delusional system. eg. “I am afraid to go to the hospital because the Norks are looking for me there” |
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| Repeating the speech of another person. eg. The nurse asks, “Tell me your name.” The client responds, “Tell me your name”. |
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| Repeating the movements of another person. eg. Each time the nurse moved or gestured with her hands, the client copied her gestures |
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