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• Anhedonia: Loss of interest in and withdrawal from all regular and pleasurable activities 

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B

• Blunted: A severe reduction in the intensity of feeling tone

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C

• Catatonic: State in which someone is awake but does not respond to people or their environment 

• Compulsion: Pathological need to act on an impulse, which if resisted, causes anxiety 

• Constricted: Impoverished, inhibited, a spectrum of feelings not elicited 

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D

• Delusion: A fixed false belief 

  • Control: False belief that one’s will, thoughts, and feelings are controlled by external forces 

  • Grandeur: False belief of one’s importance, power, or identity

  • Persecution: False belief that one is being harassed or cheated

  • Reference: False belief that behavior of others, events, or objects refers to oneself

  • Thought broadcasting: Belief that thoughts can be heard by others

  • Thought insertion: Belief that thoughts are being implanted by external forces

  • Thought withdrawal: Belief that thoughts are being removed by external forces 

• Depersonalization: A subjective sense of being unreal, strange, or unfamiliar to oneself 

• Dysphoria: An unpleasant, painful, or anguished state 

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• Euphoria: Intense elevation with feelings of grandeur 

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• Fast pressured: Rate of speech greater than average 

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• Grandiosity: Exaggeration of one’s worth 

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H

• Hallucination: An incorrect sensory perception in the absence of actual external stimulus

  • Auditory: False perception of sound (elementary noises or complete voices/words)

  • Extracampine: Seeing objects outside the sensory field (e.g., behind one’s back)

  • Gustatory: False perception of taste

  • Olfactory: False perception of smell

  • Somatic: False perception of things occurring to one’s body

  • Tactile: False perception of touch or surface sensation

  • Visual: False perception of sight consisting of formed and unformed images 

• Helplessness: Incapable of assisting oneself 

• Homicidal ideation: Desire to do serious harm or take the life of another person 

• Hopelessness: Utter despair, belief that problems cannot be solved 

• Hyperactivity: Super normal amount of purposeful, goal-directed activity 

• Hyper religiosity: Excessive concern with spiritual matters 

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• Ideas of reference: Incorrect assumption that real events or incidents have direct reference to oneself 

• Inappropriate: Emotional tone inconsistent with content of speech, thoughts, or ideas 

• Irritable: Easily annoyed and provoked to anger 

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L

• Labile: Rapid, abrupt changes in feeling tone 

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M

• Mood incongruence: Content of thoughts and feelings has no association with mood 

• Mutism: Inability to speak 

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O

• Obsessions: Persistence of an unwanted thought that cannot be eliminated from consciousness 

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P

• Paranoid ideation: Belief that one is singled out for unfair treatment 

• Poverty of speech: Restricted amount of speech, often monosyllables 

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R

• Ruminations: Excessive worry, repetitive or continuous speculation 

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S

• Slow: Rate of speech less than average 

• Somatic preoccupation: Overly concerned with body functions 

• Suicidal ideation: Desire to harm oneself or end one’s life 

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• Word salad: Incoherent speech using unrelated words and phrases in a sentence 

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