![]() It’s typically referred to as suicidal ideation (as in suicidal thinking) rather than suicidal ideations (as in suicidal thoughts). Suicidal ideation (SI) refers to thoughts of suicide. Pressured speech: speech that is very rapid and difficult to interrupt a common symptom in mania.Logorrhea (voluble speech): excessive amounts of speech a similar colloquial term would be verbal diarrhea.Alogia: lack of speech, implying impoverished thinking can involve a decreased amount of speech production (may be referred to as poverty of speech) or a lack of content (may be referred to as poverty of thought).Psychomotor retardation: slowing of thoughts and movement that can be seen in major depressive episodes (I’ve made a Youtube video demonstrating this).Psychomotor agitation: unintentional, purposeless movement, such as hand wringing or pacing.Echopraxia: imitation of movements can be part of catatonia.Negativism: does not respond to instructions, and may actively oppose attempts to be moved.Waxy flexibility: allows limbs to be moved into positions, and then holds them there.Catalepsy: fixed, rigid posture held against gravity.Stupor: lack of psychomotor activity, unreactive to the environment.Catatonia: markedly disrupted physical reactivity to the environment, including:.Restricted is the mildest term, and flat refers to almost no emotional expression. Restricted/blunted/flat: These all refer to decreased facial expressiveness.Labile: rapidly changing from one emotion to another, such as crying one minute and smiling brightly the next.Incongruent: doesn’t match the reported mood, e.g. ![]() Expansive: unrestrained expression of feelings.The term affect refers to the facial expression of emotions. 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. ![]()
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