Thought process is a part of a mental status examination that evaluates quantity, form and tempo of thought. Taking into account that the professional implementing testing is not able to know the person's thought process, all the conclusions are drawn on the basis of communication with the perso...
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Even though his article was not meant to be taken literally, I believe that most of his proposals are quite sound. No one would argue that it is NOT the responsibility of the medical profession to make sure that people are healthy, that underserved communities get the care they need, that ...
by the way, there are no drugs whose mechanism “maintains normality”—they all fix something that’sbroken). We learn how to do a mental status exam, complete with full descriptions of the behavior of manic, psychotic, depressed, and anxious...
Furthermore, Dr Smith’s training in mental health most likelypalesin comparison to that of Dr Moore. Psychologists like Dr Moore have five or more years of postgraduate training, 3000 or more hours of clinical supervision, research experience, and have passed a national licensing exam. But the...
providing some well-needed levity in a life that had turned bleak. If that book had had a trigger alert, she might have been steered away (“Oops, I better not read this – it might upset me”) from what turned out to be a totally unexpected yet therapeutic form of relief for her....
With both space and time, the same mental zoom lens that allows us to count objects or events also allows us to zoom in even closer on what each one is made of. In space, we can focus on the material making up an object (as when we say I got sausage all over my shirt ); in ...
In 1865, he was committed to a mental institution. There he was beaten by the guards, placed in a straitjacket, and locked in a dark cell. He died shortly thereafter, at the age of 47, from an infected wound.1 Why did doctors so stubbornly reject Ignaz Semmelweis? Well, imagine being...
My mother although used psychotropic drugs because she somehow thought it would make it easier to control me(I've never been diagnosed with any mental illness either). Pastors would always come and interrogate me over video games or TV watching or other things. There were NO FRIENDS outside ...
I had a mental traffic jam, which only goes to show how slow the traffic usually is.It has been a week and the effect is the same. I truly do look at money differently and have even done a few things differently this week. This is an e-book you ‘ll want to read, I promise. ...