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...)
No comments:
Post a Comment