Depression : Nursing process: Positive Symptoms
Nursing process: Positive Symptoms
- Content of thought
- Delusions: Fixed, false personal beliefs
- Persecutory
- Grandiose
- Somatic
- Erotomanic
- Jealous
- Delusions: Fixed, false personal beliefs
- Form of thought
- Associative looseness (also called loose association): Shift of ideas from one unrelated topic to another
- Neologisms: Made-up words that have meaning only to the person who invents them
- Concrete thinking: Literal interpretations of
the environment - Clang associations: Choice of words is governed by sound (often rhyming)
- Word salad: Group of words put together in a random fashion
- Circumstantiality: Delay in reaching the point of a communication because of unnecessary and tedious details
- Tangentiality: Inability to get to the point of communication due to the introduction of many new topics
- Mutism: Inability or refusal to speak
- Perseveration: Persistent repetition of the same word or idea in response to different questions
- Perception: interpretation of stimuli through the senses
- Hallucinations: False sensory perceptions not associated with real external stimuli
- Auditory
- Visual
- Tactile
- Gustatory
- Olfactory
- Illusions: Misperceptions of real external stimuli
- Echopraxia: Repeating movements that are observed
- Hallucinations: False sensory perceptions not associated with real external stimuli