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Mental Health
Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |