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What is affect?
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A pattern of observable behaviors that is the expression of a subjectively experienced feeling state (emotion). Common examples of affect are sadness, elation, and anger. In contrast to mood, which refers to a more pervasive and sustained emotional "climate", affect refers to more fluctuating changes in emotional "weather". What is considered the normal range of the expression of affect varies considerably, both within and among different cultures. Disturbances in affect include:
Blunted - significant reduction in the intensity of emotional expression. Flat - Absence or near absence of any signs of affective expression. Inappropriate - Discordance between affective expression and the content of speech or ideation. Labile - Abnormal variability in affect with repeated, rapid, and abrupt shifts in affective expression. Restricted or Constricted - Mild reduction in the range and intensity of emotional expression. |
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agitation (psychomotor agitation)
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Excessive motor acti vity associa ted with a feeling
of inner tens ion. The activity is usually non p roductive and repetitious and consists of such behavior as pacing, fidgeting, wring ing of the hands, pulling of clothes, and inability to sit still. |
