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20 Cards in this Set
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Mood |
Pervasive and sustained emotion subjectively experienced and reported by a patient or observed by others |
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Dysphoric mood |
An unpleasant mood |
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Euthymic mood |
Normal range of mood, implying absence of depressed or elevated mood. |
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Expansive mood |
A person's expression of feelings without restraint, frequently with over estimation of their significance. |
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Irritable mood |
State in which a person is easily annoyed and provoked to anger |
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Mood swings |
Oscillations between euphoria and depression or anxiety |
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Elevated mood |
Air of confidence and enjoyment |
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Euphoria |
Intense elation with feelings of grandeur |
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Ecstasy |
Feeling of intense rapture |
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Depression |
Psychopathology of sadness |
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Anhedonia |
Loss of interest in, and withdrawal from all regular and pleasurable activities. |
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Alexithymia |
A person's inability to describe or be aware of emotion |
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Hypomaniac |
Mood abnormality with the qualitative characteristics of mania but somewhat less intense. |
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Mania |
Mood state characterized by elation, agitation, hyperactivity etc. |
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Melancholia |
Severe depressive state |
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Apathy |
Dulled emotional tone associated with detachment or indifference |
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Ambivalence |
Coexistence of two opposing impulses toward the same thing in the same person at the same time. |
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Abreaction |
Emotional release or discharge after recalling a painful experience. |
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Acathexis |
Lack of feeling associated with an ordinarily emotionally charged subject |
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Decathexis |
Detaching emotions from thoughts, ideas or persons |
