Case 5 👋👋

What is Delusion?

• false, fixed belief, that is held with 100%

  conviction by the person, is not corrected by reasoning and

  is not accepted by people of the same social standard as

  the person expressing it

• A belief previously held with

  100% conviction but the person can start to accept other

  explanations

• false perception in the absence of an

  external stimulus.

What is hallucination?

• false, fixed belief, that is held with 100%

  conviction by the person, is not corrected by reasoning and

  is not accepted by people of the same social standard as

  the person expressing it.

• Belief previously held with

  100% conviction but the person can start to accept other

  explanations

• false perception in the absence of an

  external stimulus.

What is psychomotor agitation?

• inability to experience pleasure from

  normally pleasurable life events.

• excessive amount of sleeping

  hours. Usually unrefreshing sleep.

• Psychological and physical restlessness that

  stem from inner mental tension and anxiety of

  an individual.

Example of thought disorder (more than one)

• Tangentiality

• Circumstantiality

• Off-pointing

• derailment

What is tangentiality?

• gives excessive unnecessary details but gets to

  the point.

• vague and never reaches the point

• talking past the point

What is circumstantiality?

• vague and never reaches the point.

• talking past the point

• gives excessive unnecessary details but gets to

  the point.

" periods when she appears distracted by responding to imaginary voices in the room’’…. This is an example of what ?

• Auditory hallucination

• Delusion

• Thought disorder

• Negative symptom

- " stand on the dressing table chair and pray"

• - "she pray under the tree with at least ten candles around her"

• Thought disorder

• Negative symptom

• Bizarre behaviour

• - "she insisted that the baby she was pregnant with was that of the Devil"

• - she said; "That is what all animals do, once Omar can feed himself that is when he will eat food"

• Hallucination

• Bizarre delusion

• Bizarre behaviour

• Thought disorder

• - "when she found out that Omar was in their care and would check him from head to toe, looking for a "microchip" that they might have installed to keep track of her through him"

• Delusion of control

• Delusion of self reproach

• Delusion of reference

• delusion of persecution