Clang association is a variety of flight of ideas

Circumstantiality is a variety of flight of ideas

Speech is diverted by external stimuli

Not seen in Schizophrenia

I will lose all my wealth and my family will become destitute – Delusion of poverty

I am targeted by my enemies for destruction – Nihilistic delusions

I am the world’s biggest sinner – Delusion of guilt

I am desperately in love with the president. I don’t know if he loves me – Delusion of love

Content of the obsession may differ according to trends in the society

Compulsions are obsessional motor acts

In OCD the content of the obsession is always repugnant to the individual

Patients often carry out there obsessional impulses

A person experiences hallucinations as occurring within the subjective space

There are examples of hallucinations which are sensory distortions or sensory misinterpretation

Hallucinations are under control of the person will

Hallucinations can occur in normal people

Normal healthy individuals may be made to hallucinate through strong suggestions

Pseudo hallucinations can be clear and vivid

Extracampine hallucinations occur outside the limits of the sensory field

Autoscopic hallucination is the experience of seeing oneself and knowing that it is oneself

Illness of sensory organs

Tumours in the CNS

Epilepsy

Major organ failure

Affect is a person’s present emotional responsiveness

Mood is a short term, transient change in the affect

The affect is always congruent with the mood

Blunting of affect can be seen in schizophrenia

Following strokes

Frontal lobe pathology

Mania

Borderline personality disorder

There is sense of change to normal self

There is sense of unreality

Always an unpleasant experience

Not seen in patients with psychotic illnesses