ID nature of something or the process of identifying a medical condition

A PARTICULAR INSTANCE OF THE SYNDROME

Hallmarks of psychosis

• hallucination
• delusion
• disorganized speech
• grossly disorganized behavior
• prominant negative symptoms
• derealization
• severe dysregulation of affect

Examples of first rank hallucinations

• two voices conversing with one another
• a voice keeping up a running commentary on the person's thoughts and behavior (characteristic of schizophrenia)

• medical and neurological disorders
• toxic and withdrawal states
• psychotic disorders
• mood/affective disorders

• clearly implausible and not understandable
• do not derive from ordinary life experiences

Examples of first rank (of Schneider) delusions (usually bizarre)

• belief that one's thoughts are taken away by an outside force (thought withdrawl)
• belief that alien thoughts have been put into one's mind (thought insertion)
• belief that one's body is being acted upon or manipulated by some outside force (delusion of control)
• belief that one's thoughts are bein perceived by others (thought broadcasting)

Example of bizarre delusions

• thought disorder

• blunt/flattened affect
• paucity of thought
• lack of desire for social interaction
• lack of motivation

What are the attenuated signs of psychosis?

• illusion
• overvalued idea
• constricted, excessive emotionality
• vague, overelaborate
• limited interest
• odd/eccentric

1. ID syndrome
2. work through causitive agents (VITAMINS) to determine secondary cause = medical differential diagnosis
3. when all secondary causes exculded, primary psychiatric causes can be diagnosed

• medical
• substance induced
• affective psychosis

any mental imbalance that causes distress, but UNLIKE PSYCHOSIS, does not prevent or affect rational thought

• hallucinations
• delusions
• mood- blunted, flat, severely exaggerated
• language- lose associations, incoherent
• attachment- paranoid
• behavior- catatonic, disorganized