Friday, May 06, 2005

• alterations in thoughts. Examples of this are confused thoughts, lack of logical connection between thoughts and speech, the belief that other people can hear or read their own thoughts, and delusional thoughts (false beliefs that are not shared by other people with similar belief systems).
  
• alterations in perceptions. These include hallucinations and changes in sensory awareness. Hallucinations are the perception of something which is not there in the external world. They can be auditory ("hearing voices") or involve the other senses of sight, touch, smell and taste.
  
• alterations in emotions. The person may have abrupt changes in mood, experience conflicting emotions at the same time about the same thing, display inappropriate emotional responses, mania or elation that is excessive, depression and extreme sadness or despair.
  
• alterations in behaviour. These are changes in the usual patterns of behaviour for the particular individual and can include restlessness, agitation, unusual reactions and responses and day/night reversal (sleeping during the day, awake during the night).

reallli~ =_=

MG :) wrote on 22:50.