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Delusional mood


Also known as wahnstimmung, a feeling that something unusual is about to happen of special significance for that person.
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THOUGHT BROADCASTING


The experience that one's thoughts are being transmitted from one's mind and broadcast to everyone.
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Thought echo


Where thoughts are heard as if spoken aloud, when there is some delay these are known as echo de la pensée and when heard simultaneously, Gedankenlautwerden.
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Agnosia


An inability to organise sensory information so as to recognise objects (e.g. visual agnosia) or sometimes even parts of the body, (e.g. hemisomatoagnosia).
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Agnosía


An inability to organise sensory information so as to recognise objects (e.g. visual agnosia) or sometimes even parts of the body, (e.g. hemisomatoagnosia).
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Akathisia


An inner feeling of excessive restlessness which provokes the sufferer to fidget in their seat or pace about.
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Anorexia nervosa


Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterised by excess control - a morbid fear of obesity leads the sufferer to try and limit or reduce their weight by excessive dieting, exercising, vomiting, [..]
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Anxiety


Anxiety is provoked by fear or apprehension and also results from a tension caused by conflicting ideas or motivations. Anxiety manifests through mental and somatic symptoms such as palpitations, dizz [..]
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Asthenia


Asthenia is a weakness or debility of some form, hence neurasthenia, a term for an illness seen by dctors around the turn of the century, a probable precursor to chronic fatigue syndrome and myalgic e [..]
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Bulimia nervosa


Described by Russell in 1979, bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder characterised by lack of control. Abnormal eating behaviour including dieting, vomiting, purging and particularly bingeing may be as [..]
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