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| Inability to remain calm, still, and free of anxiety |
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| Inability to remember one's past, may be caused by brain damage or severe emotional trauma |
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| Absence of the ability to experience pleasure or joy no matter what |
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| a state of apparent unresponsiveness to external stimuli in a person who is apparently awake. |
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| To fill in gaps in one's memory with fabrications that one believes to be facts. |
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| psychological strategies brought into play by the unconscious mind[1] to manipulate, deny, or distort reality |
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| condition of confused, unfocused, irrational agitation, may also be accompanied by intense disorientation, incoherence, or fear and illusions, hallucinations and delusions |
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| A delusion is a belief held with strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary |
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| a decline of mental abilities such as thinking, reasoning and memory. |
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| Echolalia is repeating or ”echoing” what another person has said. |
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| perception of objects with no reality usually arising from disorder of the nervous system or in response to drugs |
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| something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality |
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| loss of contact with reality that usually includes: False beliefs about what is taking place or who one is (delusions); Seeing or hearing things that aren't there (hallucinations). |
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| moderately reduced range of affect |
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| diminishment or loss of emotional expression sometimes observed in schizophrenia |
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| multiple abrupt changes in affect seen in certain types of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder |
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| full/wide range of affect |
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| appropriate emotional response |
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| symptom, pathological in nature if it is inappropriate for the situation, caused by feeling of lack of control |
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| feeling of apprehension, restlessness, tension, tachycardia (rapid heartbeat) and breathing difficulty |
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| negative mood from depression |
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| exaggerated sense of physical and emotional well-being |
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| normal range of moods and emotions |
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| impairment of social interaction and repetitive patterns of inappropriate behavior |
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| attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder |
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| abnormal development of social interaction, impaired communication, and repetitive behaviors |
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| any number of disorders characterized by patterns of persistent aggressive and defiant behaviors |
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| oppositional defiant disorder; characterized by hostile disobedient behavior |
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| subaverage intellectual ability |
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| IQ 50-69, learning difficulties |
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| IQ 39-49, support needed to function in society |
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| IQ 20-34, continuous need of support to live in society |
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| IQ <20 severe self-care limitations |
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| condition, initial normal functioning followed by loss of social and intellectual functioning |
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| involuntary behaviors that includes the vocalization of words or sounds and repetitive movements (tics) |
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| episode of behavioral disturbance following ingestion of alcohol or psychotropic drugs |
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| acute and sometimes fatal delirium induced by the cessation of ingesting excessive amounts of alcohol over long periods of time |
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| difficulty in controlling use of a drug |
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| pattern of drug use that causes damage to health |
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| body becomes accustomed to the substances ingested, hence user requires greater amounts to get wasted |
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| symptoms that occur during cessation |
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