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Mental Health Definitions
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Word Salad

A mixture of words and phrases that lack comprehensive meaning or logical coherence; commonly seen in schizophrenia. A mental health disorder characterized by significant disorganization of thinking (cognition), behavior, impaired reality testing (delusions, hallucinations) and decrease general functioning. Sign and symptoms last at least six months. Subtypes include paranoid, disorganized, undifferentiated, catatonic, and residual. Involuntary muscle movements. Speech patterns in which the individual chooses words for their sounds rather than meaning. Rhymes and puns that have a "clanging" tone are used. Common in schizophrenia, mania, or autism. Excess muscle tension Abnormal or purposeless muscle movement of the extremities, trunk, face, jaw, or oralbuccal muscles causing rocking or twisting motions, pelvic thrusting or gyrations, tremors, tongue darting or writhing, spastic facial movements, frowning blinking, blowing, teeth grinding, lip smacking, or chewing movements, if the patient has food or gum in their mouth. This type of extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS) may be irreversible. A behavioral phenomenon that occurs frequently in patients diagnosed with borderline personality disorder involving a specific type of cognitive distortion known as dichotomous thinking. A patient will attempt to divide one nurse or staff member against another over various issues including unit policies and what patients are allowed to do. A patient's subconscious displacement of feelings for significant people in his/her past onto the nurse or other staff member in the current therapeutic relationship. The observable components of an emotion (objective); facial expression (anger, sadness, excitement). It is distinguished from mood because it changes more frequently and readily.

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Trigger

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Schizophrenia

Anything (situations, events, people, geographic locations, activities, odors, sights) that increases the risk and/or increases the probability of a mental health illness or substance abuse issue relapse. Subject to frequent and/or unpredictable changes in mood, affect, or behavior. Suspiciousness that is not based in reality. An ego defense mechanism commonly used by patients with borderline personality D/O. These individuals blame someone else for their problems or place their own desires on someone else (sexual desires, jealousy, anger) and accuse others of feeling or action that way. Internal sensation of an emotion (subjective); the state of mind exhibited through emotions and feelings. Interpersonal and intrapersonal dissociation from emotional or affective expression of emotions, that person appears emotionally cold, distant, and aloof. A more extreme form of desensitization TX where the person is exposed to or confronted with the actual or similar stressful triggers/situation for an extended period of time. The goal is to extinguish the person's emotional response. The opposite of euphoria or euphoricdepressed mood. A person's belief that neither he/she nor anyone else can help them. A primitive thought process in which the individual believes that his or her manifestations or actions can produce results that are not supported by natural laws. Thinking in which there is no apparent relationship between thoughts while the patient is speaking. A potentially fatal adverse reaction to neuroleptic (antipsychotic) medication. A person's belief that people, situations, or events will never change for the better. Negative use of unhealthy behaviors or actions by a person to obtain needs. Positive uses of manipulation include changes in the therapeutic milieu to reinforce healthy behavior.

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Labile Mood Paranoia Projection

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Dyskinesia Clang Associations

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Mood

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Dystonia Tardive Dyskinesia

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Detachment

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Flooding

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Splitting

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Dysphoria Helplessness Magical thinking

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Transference

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Loose associations Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome Hopelessness Manipulation

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Affect

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Personality Traits

Stable or repeated patterns of feelings, thoughts, and behaviors that develop as individual adapt to their environment. Includes how they view both themselves and others. Making up plausible (possible believable) information to cover up for memory problems. Different form lying because this person is not covering up information, but is unable to provide information in response to questions and therefore creates it. Subjective feeling of discomfort that arises from perceived threat to safety, security, or well-being. Physical and psychological SX's may occur. Absence or near absence of any sign of affective expression. Temporary, rapidly developing, potentially reversible mental D/O affection cognitive. May be reversible or irreversible. A disturbance manifested by a sever reduction/restriction in the intensity of affect. Excessive focus on the needs of another to the detriment or harm of the person not using substances or dysfunctional behavior patterns. A false sense of elation or well-being, pathological elevation of mood. A combination of genetic and environmental influences that contribute to a person attitude and behavior problems. A newly invented word or condensed combination of several words coined by a person to express a highly complex idea. Observed in patients with a though D/O. A nearly continuous flow of accelerated speech with abrupt changes from one topic to another, usually based on understandable associations, distracting stimuli, or playing on words. More reality-based then loose association. Inability to experience pleasure in normal activities. An affective mood disorder that involves periods of mania and periods of depression. A fixed, rigid posture that may be maintained for several hours (associated with schizophrenia).

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Dementia

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Confabulation

Organic mental impairment that interferes with normal mental functions. Usually progresses slowly, interfering with recent memory, abstract thinking, judgment, and personality. Remote memory may ultimately be lost as well. Non-meaningful repetition of a phrase or word. Seen in organic mental D/O and schizophrenia. Retreating to an earlier level of development. May be a response to overwhelming psychological stress. A serious mental D/O that involves disruptions and distortions in contact with reality. An action that is close to one that could cause suicide- a suicidal action is imminent. Thoughts about suicide. If these thoughts progress, they may lead to suicidal planning. Statements that indicate the person is thinking about or planning suicide. A serious attempt to end one's life. A disturbance of thought that involves the form, structure, and content of thought.

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Perseveration

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Regression

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Anxiety

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Schizophrenia

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Flat Affect Delirium

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Suicide Gesture Suicide Ideation Suicide Threat Suicide Attempt Thought D/O

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Blunted Affect

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Codependency

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Euphoria Personality

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Neologism

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Flight of Ideals

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Anhedonia Bipolar D/O Catatonic

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