PSYC 3082 : Mental Status Exam
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Fidgety and restless, hyperactive: restless, hyperactive, fidgety, calm, psychomotor agitation, psychomotor retardation [person moves very slowly some cases of sever schizo] How would you describe your mood right now? : happy, sad, depressed, elevated, euphoric irritable, dysthymic, dysphoric, labile (rapidly changing), euthymic. Affect [how your mood is conveyed: full range, blunted, flat, tearful, constricted. Easy to understand?] understandable, goal directed, articulation problems pressured tangential, circumstantial, perseverative, echolalia (repeating back things said to you) **hallucinations (sensory experience w/o sensory input: auditory, visual, tactile (one with brain damage or whom have ingested too much meth), olfactory, gustatory (one with brain injury) Delusions [falsely held, irrational belief even with evidence to the contrary: persecutory (or paranoid), grandiose, erotomanic, somatic, ideas of reference. Suicidal ideation **you must ask about suicidal thoughts, thoughts of death or dying in the first interview [for yours and your patients" safety] May be cloudy if have brain damage or are on drugs: clear sensorium, oriented x 4, cloudy sensorium.
