Across
- 2. disturbances of sleep, weight loss, loss of appetite & sexual interest characteristic of depressive disorders
- 3. terrible, enduring fear of a specific disease, e.g. cancer
- 6. Persistent repetition of words, ideas or act
- 9. An objective manifestation of a pathological condition
- 13. patient fabricates information to fill in gaps in a story due to memory impairment
- 15. subjective manifestation of a pathological condition, reported by the patient
- 16. senseless repetition of another person’s speech
- 17. A perception in the absence of an external stimulus that has quality of a true perception
- 18. Lack of feeling, concern, interest or emotion
- 19. subjective experience of feelings and emotions as described by the individual
- 20. The misperception or distortion of an external stimulus
- 22. Persistent, recurrent, irresistible and distressing thoughts, images and impulse
Down
- 1. Enduring patterns of perceiving, relating to and thinking about the world and oneself
- 4. inability to feel pleasure
- 5. overwhelming need to repeat some action in a ritualistic manner over which the person feels no control Delusion A false belief or idea firmly held despite strong evidence to the contrary
- 7. persistent irrational fear of a specific object or situation resulting in a compelling desire to avoid it
- 8. ability to analyse a situation and understand the true meaning of an experience
- 10. experience of one’s thoughts being abruptly stopped, observed as an interruption of speech
- 11. flow of thought moves rapidly from one topic to another
- 12. Imitation of another person’s movements
- 14. A cluster of signs and symptoms
- 21. New invented words with idiosyncratic meanings for the patient