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Mental Health
Terms
Term | Definition |
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Affect | The behavioral expression of emotion |
Aggression | Harsh physical or verbal actions intended either consciously or unconsciously to harm to injure another |
Behavior | Any observable, recordable act, movement or response of an individual |
Circumstantial Speech | when the focus of conversation drifts but often comes back to the point. |
Tangential Speech | Communication disorder in which the train of thought of the speaker wanders and shows lack of focus, never returning to the initial topic of the conversation. |
Impoverished | Dosent want to be bothered |
Command Auditory Hallucinations | A type of auditory hallucinations that instruct a patient to act in specific ways |
Delusion | Fixed false belief |
Depression | Can be a sign, symptom, disease or reaction sadness or grief |
Euthymic | state of tranquility well-being, and normal mental state or mood |
Europhoric | feeling or experiencing intense happiness |
Depersonalization | observing oneself from outside ones body or having sense of well being |
Derealization | a mental state that causes a person to perceive the world around them as unreal, distorted, or distant |
Hallucination | Seeing, hearing, smelling, or feeling something that is not a result of external stimuli |
Insight | Awarness and understanding of behavior |
Labile | Frequent and rapid change of emotions |
Paranoia | Suspiciouness |
Tics | sudden, repetitive, and involuntary movements or sounds that can be difficult to control |
restless | unable to relax |
ideation | the formation of ideas or concepts |
constricted | restricted |