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| dementia-like disorder that can be reversed |
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| hypnopompic hallucination |
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| hallucinations occouring while awakening from sleep |
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feigning dz to achieve a specifi goal
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| hypnagogic hallucinations |
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| hallucinations occuirng whil falling asleep, not ordianrily considered pathological |
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| sub average general intellectual: mild 50-70, mod 35-50, severe 20-25, profund below 20 |
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| conscious recognition of one's own condition. gets it |
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| autisitc thinking; fails to take the facts of reality on experience into consideration |
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| hysterical pregnancy: rare condition which a person believe they are pregnant present with symptoms of pregnancy |
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| association or speech directed by the sound of a word rather than its meaning; no logical connection |
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| any disturbance of consciousness in which the person is not fully awake, alert oriented |
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| acute and sometimes fatal reaction to w/drawal from alcohol |
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| false belief, based on incorrect inference about external reality. fixed belief |
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| false belief that a person's will, thoughts or feelings are being controlled by external forces |
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| exaggerated conception of one's importance, power or identity |
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| false belief that on'es lover is unfaithful also known as : pathological jealousy |
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| false belief of being harassed or persectued |
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| false belief that one is poor will be deprived of all material possession |
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| dificultyin compehending oral language (recption dysphasia) or in trying to exprss verbal language ( expressive dysphasia) |
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| air of confidence and enjoyment; a mood more cheerful than normal but necessarily pathological |
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| a level of understanding or awareness that one has emotional problems |
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| excessive emotional responsiveness characterized by unstable and rapidly changing emotions. |
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| false belief that the behavior of others refer to them ex. the people on tv are talking about them |
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| mental disorder characterized by general impairment w/o clouding of consciousness, characterized by failing memory, difficulty w/ calculation, impaired judgment. |
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| sensation of unreality concerning onself, parts of self usually under exterme stress and fatigue |
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| feelings of sadness, loneliness, despair, low self esteem and self reproach |
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| gradual or sudden deviation in train of thought w/o blocking |
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| involuntary passage of feces, usually happens at night or sleeping |
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| compulsion to drink alcohol |
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| confusion; impairment of awareness of time, person, and place |
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| unconscious defense mechanism involving the segregation of any group of mental or behavioral process; seperation of emotion for the idea |
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| delusional belief, that someone is deeply in love with them; more common in women |
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| false perception of orders that a person may feel obligated to obey unable to resist |
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| need to act on an impulse that if resisted produce anxiety; repetitive behavior |
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| unconscious filling of gaps in memory by imagining experience or events tha have no basis in fact; not the same as lying |
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| patholigical repetiion of the same response |
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| morbid fear of open places or leaving the familar setting of the home. |
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| subjective feeling of motor restlessness mnifested by a cmpeling need to be in constant momvement |
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| thinking characterized by the ability to grasp the essential of a whole , to break a whole into its part; think symbolically |
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| a process by which repressed material is recalled and relived |
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| reduced impulse ot act and to think with indifference about consequences of action |
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| disturbance in the associative thought and speech process in which pt goes off on tangents before talking about the central idea. (see tangentialit) |
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| never gets to the point when communicating |
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| expression of feeling w/o restraint frequently with an overestimation of their significance or importance |
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| involuntary use of vuglar or obscence language; as in tourette's |
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| deterioration of psychic function caused by a breakdown of defense mechanisms |
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| acute reversible mental disorder characterized by confusion and some impairment of consciousness |
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| gradual development of highly elaborate and complex delusion involving persecutory or grandiose delusions |
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| inability or difficulty in descrbing or being of one's emotions or mood |
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| lack of physical movement, extreme immobility catatonic |
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| lack of feeling associated with an ordinary emotionally charged subject; detaching from thoughts and emotion |
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| forceful, goal directed action that can be verbal or physical |
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| sujective and immediate experience of emotion attached to ideas or mental representation of objects: can be blunted, flattened , broad, labile appropriate or inappropriate |
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| severe anxiety associate with motor restlessness |
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| inability to speak because of mental deficiency or an episode of dementia |
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| loss of interest in things that were pleasurable |
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| loss or decrease in appetite |
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| any disturbance in the comprehension or expression of language caused by brain lesion |
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| inabiilty to perfrom a voluntary purposeful motor activity;can't be explained (constructional apraxia: can't draw 1 2 3 dimensional forms) |
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| lack of coordination, loss of muscular coordination (intrapsychic ataxia:lack of coordingation between feeling and thoughts |
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| false perception of sound usually voices |
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| thinking in which the thoughts are narcisstic and egocentric |
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| false belief that is patently absurd or fantastical ex. space invader implanted electrodes in your brain) |
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| vluntary assumption of inapproprate or bizarre posture for long periods of time |
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| disturbance of affect manifested by severe reduction in the intensity of externalized feeling tone |
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| fixed and sustained motoric position that is resistant to change |
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| tactile hallucination involving the sensation that timy insects are crawling over the skin |
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| severe pervasive generalized anxiety that is not attached to any particular idea, object or event |
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| dissociative disorder characterized by a period of almost complete amnesia during which a person actually flee from an immediate life situation and begins a differnt life pattern |
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| abnormal discharge milk from breast |
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| unintelligible jargon that has meaning to the speaker but not to the listener |
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| exaggerated feeling of one's importance , power, knowledge or identity |
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| increased muscular activity |
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| denoting aspects of person's personality that viewed as repugnant, unacceptable, or inconsistent with the rest of the personality |
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| incontinence of uring during sleep |
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| absence or near absence of any signs of affective expression |
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| seen in paranoia excessive attention to and focus on all internal and external stimuli |
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| exaggerated concern about helath that is based no on real medical pathology, unrealistic interpetation of phyiscl signs |
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| mood abnormality with qualitative characteristics o mainia; junior grade mania |
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| misinterpretation of incidents and event oustide the world as having direct personal refrence |
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| thinking containing erroneous conclusion or internal contradiction |
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| pathological compulsion to steal |
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| mental act of comparing or evaluation choices |
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| reduction in quanity of spontaneous speech;replies are brief and unelaborated |
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| rapid and abrupt changes urelated to external stimuli |
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| changes in mood between euphoria and depression or anxiety |
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| loosening of associations |
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| schizophrenic thinking or speech disturbance; unconnected idea shift from one subject to another |
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| a form of dereistic thought; thoughts, words or action assume power to cause or prevent events |
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| delusion that thoughts are being implanted in ones mind by other people or forces |
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| mood state characterized y elation, agitiation hyperactivity, hypersexuality and accelerated thing and speaking |
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| false sense of omnipotence |
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| new word or phase derivation can't be understood. nonsense |
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| depressive delusion that the world and everything related to it have ceased to exist |
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| delusion of the nonexistence of the self or part of the self |
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| persistent and recurrent idea or thought or impulse that cant be eliminated from consciousness |
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| state of awareness of oneself and surrounding in terms of time, place and person |
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| in schizophrenia: hallucinations, delusions and thought disorder |
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| craving and eating of non food substances such as paint or clay |
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| ability to differentiate between the external world and internal world and accuraely judge relations between self and environment |
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| increase in the amount of spontaneous speech, rapid, loud, accelerated speech occurs in manina, schizophrenia, and cognitive |
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| defense mechanism: externalizing whatever is unacceptable |
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| poverty of speech content |
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| speech that is adquate in amount conveys little information because of vagueness, emptiness |
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| restriction in the amount of speech used replies may monosyllabic |
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