Thursday 8 December 2011

SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS IN PSYCHIATRY - 3


9. Disorders of Mood:

·         Abnormal Presence: Fear, Anxiety, Depression, Elation and Anger.

·         Abnormality in depth and duration:
o   Blunting – lack of emotional sensitivity.
o   Flattening – limitation of the usual range of emotions
o   Apathy – lack of emotions.
o   Anhedonia – total inability to enjoy or inability to experience pleasure.

·   Appropriateness:
o   Appropriate and congruent: mood is proper to the occasion, thinking and action.
o   Inappropriate (feeling happy when a tragedy strikes); incongruent (laughing when a sad event is narrated)

·    Abnormal swings: emotional changes are very rapid as from sorrow to joy.
o   Ambivalence refers to the co existence of contradictory feelings and attitudes towards the same object simultaneously.

(to be conted...)

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