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| Activities of Daily Living |
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| The basic activities a person usually accomplishes during a normal day, such as eating, dressing, and bathing |
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| A condition of orientation, confusion, and possible hallucinations coupled with purposeless, restless physical activity |
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| A change in the way a person thinks and behaves that may signal disease in the CNS or elsewhere in the body |
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| How a person functions or acts in response to his or her environment |
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The point at which a person's reactions to events interfere with activities of daily living
This becomes a psychiatric emergency when it causes a major life interruption, such as attempted suicide |
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A persistent mood of sadness, despair, and discouragement
May be a symptom of many different mental and physical disorders, r it may be a disorder on its own |
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| A disorder in which there is no known physiological reason for the abnormal functioning of an organ or organ system |
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| Temporary or permanent dysfunction of the brain, caused by a disturbance in the physicall or physiological functioning of brain tissue |
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| An illness with psychological or behavioral symptoms and/or impairment in functioning caused by a social, psychological, genetic, physical, chemical, or biologic disturbance |
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| An emergency in which abnormal behavior threatens a person's own health and safety or the health and safety of another person, for example when a person becomes suicidal, homiciddal, or has a psychotic eepisode |
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| A mental disorder characterized by the loss of contact with reality |
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Potential Causes for Altered Mental Status
Acidosis/ alcohol
Epilepsy/ electrolytes
Insulin
Overdose/ Opiates
Uremia/ Underdose
Trauma
Infection
Psychological/ Poison
Stroke/ seizure/ syncope |
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