Depression Nursing process: Negative Symptoms
Nursing process: Negative Symptoms
- Affect: The feeling state or emotional tone
- Inappropriate affect: Emotions are incongruent with the circumstances
- Bland: Weak emotional tone
- Flat: Appears to be void of emotional tone
- Apathy: Disinterest in the environment
- Avolition: Impairment in the ability to initiate goal-directed activity
- Emotional ambivalence: Coexistence of opposite emotions toward same object, person, or situation
- Deterioration in appearance: Impaired personal grooming and self-care activities
- Impaired interpersonal functioning and relationship to the external world
- Impaired social interaction: Clinging and intruding on the personal space of others, exhibiting behaviors that are not culturally and socially acceptable
- Social isolation: A focus inward on the self to the exclusion of the external environment
- Lack of insight
- Anergia: deficiency of energy
- Anhedonia: Inability to experience pleasure
- Lack of abstract thinking ability
- Associated features
- Waxy flexibility: Passive yielding of all movable parts of the body to any effort made at placing them in certain positions
- Posturing: Voluntary assumption of inappropriate or bizarre postures
- Pacing and rocking: Pacing back and forth and rocking the body
- Regression: Retreat to an earlier level of development
- Eye movement abnormalities