| A | B |
|---|
| Affect | Outward behaviors including but not limited to facial expression and vocal modulation which express emotions |
| Affectivelability | rapid change from one emotion to the next. Rapid as in minutes. |
| alogia | Poverty of thinking evidenced either by poverty of speech or by poverty of content of speech. |
| anhedonia | lack of enjoyment of life activities |
| AreasofAffectivesymptoms | Anxiety Depression Euphoria Anger |
| Auditoryhallucinations | When person perceives they are hearing voices which do not reflect reality |
| avolition | Absence of initiative or motivation to begin and maintain behavior in pursuit of a goal |
| Axisone | Clinical Disorders |
| Axistwo | Personality Disorders and Mental Retardation |
| Axisthree | Medical Conditions |
| Axisfour | Psychosocial and Environmental Factors |
| Axisfive | Global Assessment of Functioning Score |
| Bipolaronedisorder | Diagnosis of this Bipolar Disorder requires at least one Manic or Mixed episode but there may be episodes of Hypomania or Major Depression as well |
| BipolartwoDisorder | Diagnosis of this Bipolar Disorder requires neither a Manic nor a Mixed Episode but does require at least one episode of hypomania in addition to an episode of Major Depression. |
| Bipolardisorder | characterized by dramatic mood swings or episodes of Mania Hypomania or Major Depression. |
| BluntedAffect | Range of affective expression is markedly reduced but not absent. |
| catatonia | excitement consists of driven excited excessive but purposeless movement. At the other extreme catatonic patients may appear stuporous with a rigidly held posture usually remaining mute and unresponsive |
| Commandhallucination | Psychotic individuals sometime describe hallucinations of voices commanding them to engage in specific activity. |
| CooccuringDisorder | When multiple diagnosis are present for an individual. |
| Course | Syndrom varies among individuals in terms of onset trajectory and severity |
| CyclothymicDisorder | Diagnosis of this Bipolar Disorder requires a history of numerous hypomanic Episodes intermingled with numerous episodes of depression that do not meet the criteria for Major Depressive Episodes |
| Delusion | Commonly defined in behavioral health care as a fixed false belief excluding beliefs that are part of a religious movement this psychotic symptom is present in a variety of serious mental disorders. |
| DelusionofGrandeur | Delusional beliefs of possessing exaggerated power importance knowledge or ability |
| Delusions | Eronious beliefs having to do with self inflation religious persecutory somatic or referential in content |
| Derailment | Disordered thought in which the idea changes spontaneously to another idea that is unrelated or only distantly related. |
| Diagnosis | The collections of symptoms and dysfunctions that cohere to form a meaningful psychiatric syndrome |
| Disability | An illness that keeps a person from meeting life goals that are age and culturally appropriate |
| disfunctions | represent absence of normal functioning for age and culture |
| Disorganizedspeech | Syntax and Semantics that govern the meaning of spoken content are absent resulting in content being nonsensical. |
| DSM | Diagnostical Statistical Manual |
| dysphoria | Unpleasant mental and emotional state especially mood associated with a variety of mental disorders |
| Dysthymia | The condition of persistent dysphoria or mild mood depression |
| Euphoria | A mood state characterized by an exaggerated superficial sense of well being |
| Euthymia | Normal mood. The absence of mood elevation hyperthymia or mania or depression hypothymia or dysthymia. |
| FlatAffect | Complete or nearly complete absence of affective expression |
| FlightofIdeas | Like derailment this form of disordered thought suggests leaps from idea to unrelated idea but perhaps with greater number and rapidity |
| FormalThoughtDisorder | Disturbance of form of thought with or without disturbance of thought content |
| GAFScore | Score represents distress and impaired function due to psychiatric illness |
| Grandiosity | Inflated self-esteem or self-worth usually manifested as content of thinking or talk with themes reflecting the patient's belief that he or she is the greatest or has special attributes or abilities |
| hallucination | This psychotic symptom found in a variety of serious mental disorders involves sensory perceptual distortions for example seeingvisual hearing auditory smelling olfactory feeling haptic tactile or tasting gustatory sensations that others would not sense and do not exist outside one's perception |
