mood disorders - disorders characterized by emotional states;include depression and mania, dysthymic disorder - a mood disorder involving moderate depression, major depression - severe depression; involves loss of appetite, lack of energy, hopelessness, and suicidal thoughts, mania - a mood disorder involving extreme agitation, restlessness, rapid speech, and trouble concentrating, flight of ideas - a confused state in which thoughts and speech go in all directions with no unifying concept, bipolar disorder - a mood disorder involving hig and low moods, learned helplessness - a condition in which a person has accepted the idea that they can do nothing to help themself, serotonin - a brain chemical. levels that are too hig lead to mania; levels that are too low lead to depression, psychosis(psychotic disorder) - a severe mental disorder that may involve disorganized thought processes, hallucinations, delusions, and major problems with emotional responses, thought disorder - a serious distortion in the ability to think or speak in a lucid and coherent way, hallucinating - the act of seeing or hearing something that is not present, delusion - a belief in something that is clearly not true, schizophrenia - a psychosis involving disorganized thoughts and garbled speech as well as hallucinations and delusions; the most serious mental disorder, word salad - speech in which words are mixed incoherently, clang associations - rhythmic patterns associated with psychotic speech, catatonic schizophrenia - type of schizophrenia characterized by disturbances of movement, paranoid schizophrenia - type of schizophrenia marked by strong feelings of suspiciousness and persecution, undifferentiated schizophrenia - schizophrenia that lacks distinguishing symptoms, psychotic episodes - periods of psychotic behavior; they can alternate with periods of relative coherence and calm, dopamine - a brain chemical. It is present in excess in schizophrenics, which causes nerve cells to fire too rapidly and leads to confusion in thought and speech,

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