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    PYSCHO

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    This document lists and defines various thought behaviors, affects/emotions, behaviors/attitudes, and communication/social skills that may be observed in patients experiencing mental health issues. It includes definitions for things like suspicion, delusions, hallucinations, euphoria, apathy, compulsions, echopraxia, blocking, flight of ideas, and mutism among others. The document provides detailed descriptions of different types of thought disturbances and behaviors that may present in patients.

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    This document lists and defines various thought behaviors, affects/emotions, behaviors/attitudes, and communication/social skills that may be observed in patients experiencing mental health issues. It includes definitions for things like suspicion, delusions, hallucinations, euphoria, apathy, compulsions, echopraxia, blocking, flight of ideas, and mutism among others. The document provides detailed descriptions of different types of thought disturbances and behaviors that may present in patients.

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    This document lists and defines various thought behaviors, affects/emotions, behaviors/attitudes, and communication/social skills that may be observed in patients experiencing mental health issues. It includes definitions for things like suspicion, delusions, hallucinations, euphoria, apathy, compulsions, echopraxia, blocking, flight of ideas, and mutism among others. The document provides detailed descriptions of different types of thought disturbances and behaviors that may present in patients.

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    PYSCHO

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    This document lists and defines various thought behaviors, affects/emotions, behaviors/attitudes, and communication/social skills that may be observed in patients experiencing mental health issues. It includes definitions for things like suspicion, delusions, hallucinations, euphoria, apathy, compulsions, echopraxia, blocking, flight of ideas, and mutism among others. The document provides detailed descriptions of different types of thought disturbances and behaviors that may present in patients.

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    A. THOUGHT BEHAVIORS 1. SUSPICION 2. INSIGHT 3. DISORIENTATION 4. COMPREHENSION 5. DISTRACTABILITY 6. IMPAIRMENT OF JUDGEMENT 7. ATTENTION 8. SUGGESTIBILITY 9. PREOCCUPATION 10. HALLUCINATION a.

    Auditory b. Visual c. Olfactory d. Tactile e. Taste 11. ILLUSION

    12, DELUSON a. Persecution/Reference b. Unworthiness/Deprecaition c. Poison d. Grandeur e. Guilt f. Infidelity g. Alien Control h. Nihilistic i. Somatic-A delusion that a part of one's body has been injured or altered in some manner. 13. IDEAS OF REFERENCE 14. COSMIC IDENTIFICATION 15. DEPERSONALIZATION 16. TRANSFER OF PERSONALITY- emotions and desires from another person unconsciously shifted to oneself 17. MEMORY IMPAIRMENT- unable to recall new facts or information a. Anterograde Amnesia- Anterograde amnesia is a loss of the ability to create new memories after the event that caused the amnesia, leading to a partial or complete inability to recall the recent past, while long-term memories from before the event remain intact.

    b. Retrograde Amnesia- Retrograde amnesia (RA) is a loss of access to events that occurred, or information that was learned, before an injury or the onset of a disease. 18. STUPOR- Stupor is the lack of critical cognitive function and level of consciousness wherein a sufferer is almost entirely unresponsive and only responds to base stimuli such as pain. 19. CONFABULATION- confabulation is a memory disturbance that is characterized by verbal statements and/or actions that inaccurately describe history, background, and present situations 20. PSEUDOLOGICA FANTASTICA-sufferer genuinely believes that fictitious events have taken place, regardless that these events are fantasies. the domination of one's thoughts or feelings by a persistent idea, image, desire 21. OBESESSION-the domination of one's thoughts or feelings by a persistent idea, image, desire

    B. AFFECT/EMOTIONS 1. EUPHORIA-intense state of transcendent happiness combined with an overwhelming sense of contentment 2. ELATION-affective state of exaggerated well-being 3. APATHY-absence of interest in or concern about 4. BLUNTING-failure to express feelings either verbally or non-verbally 5. AMBIVALENCE-having simultaneous, conflicting feelings toward a person or thing.[ 6. LABILITY-constantly undergoing change or something 7. IRRITABILITY-abnormal or excessive sensitivity to stimuli

    C. BEHAVIOR/ATTITUDE 1. WAXY FLEXIBILITY- decreased response to stimuli and a tendency to remain in an immobile posture. 2. PATHOLOGIC LIMB RIGIDITY- inflexibility or stiffness. 3. COMPULSION- an overwhelming urge to perform an irrational act or ritual 4. ECHOPRAXIA- The involuntary imitation of movements made by another. 5. IMPULSIVENESS- Inclined or tending to act on impulse rather than thought. 6. TICS AND SPASMS- sudden, repetitive, nonrhythmic motor movement

    D. COMMUNICATION/SOCIAL SKILLS 1. ECHOLALIA- involuntary repetition of words or phrases just spoken by others, 2. PUNNING- A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words. 3. RHYMING- Correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse. 4. CLANG ASSOCIATION- association made between two words because they sound similar 5. NEOLOGISM- invention of new words 6. BLOCKING- sudden cessation of speech or a thought process without an immediate observable cause 7. IRRELEVANCE- Something unrelated to a matter being considered

    8. CIRCUMSTANTIALITY- quality of being fully or minutely detailed 9. FLIGHT OF IDEAS- Verbal skipping from one idea to another in which the ideas bear only a superficial relation to one another 10. WORD SALAD- jumble of incoherent speech 11. MUTISM- unable or unwilling to speak as a result of a physical or psychological disorder. 12. PERSEVERATION- Uncontrollable repetition of a particular response, such as a word

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