![]() ![]() ![]() Incongruent: doesn’t match the reported mood, e.g.Expansive: unrestrained expression of feelings. ![]() Words to describe affect (facial expression of emotion) Passive: wishing to die, but not thinking about doing something to make that happen.Active: thoughts of acting to take one’s life may or may not have a specific plan, and the intent to act on those thoughts can be variable.Suicidal ideation (SI): thoughts of suicide Ego-dystonic: thoughts that are unwanted and inconsistent with what someone normally believes when they are well (the opposite of this is ego-syntonic) for example, OCD obsessions about being a risk to harm someone else would likely be ego-dystonic, while OCPD obsessiveness may be related to an ego-syntonic desire for perfection.Derealization: also a form of dissociation, this involves a sense that one’s surroundings aren’t fully real, and may feel like looking out at the world through a barrier.Depersonalization: a form of dissociation in which the self doesn’t feel real, which may include a feeling of looking at the self from a detached perspective.It can be caused by traumatic brain injury. Confabulation: This is the unconscious filling in of memory gaps by imagined events that doesn’t involve intentional lying.Avolition: an inability to initiate and persist in goal-directed activities.Anosognosia: lack of insight into one’s own illness and its effects (this isn’t disagreeing with one’s diagnosis, but rather a lack of self-awareness) anosognosia is often a symptom of illness.Anhedonia: an inability to experience pleasure.Alexithymia: an inability to identify and describe one’s emotions considered to be a personality trait. ![]()
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