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What to do? The producers of this have chosen to present it as if it were a filmed stage play of the era. That means that you have a combination of expository speech where things are "explained" to one another, or explained to one's self as if in a mental diary. So for each meas...
Negative symptoms: blunted affect, social withdrawal, decreased motivation, decreased speech, thoughtPE: Vitals, MSE, general appearance DDx:Schizoaffective D/OMood d/o with psychotic featuresSchizophreniaSchizophreniform D/OPsychotic D/O due to a general medical conditionWork-Up:Mental Status Exam...
Where the speech goes, the thought can surely follow: when the body’s having trouble breathing, wouldn’t you expect that to disrupt, say, lengthy stretches of otherwise uninterrupted thought? Actually, I would urge you to give some thought into working bodily rhythms into your writing in ...
But how is this possible, without a level of mental telepathy on the agency screener’s part that would positively stun the Amazing Kreskin? Are the rejecting agents seeing past the initial packet to the book itself, decreeing from afar that the writing is not worth reading — and thus that...