Terms Related to Psychotic Mood Disorder

• Psychotic Disorder

  Disorders in which there is a loss of ego boundaries or a gross impairment in reality testing with delusions or prominent hallucinations. (From DSM-IV, 1994)

• Mood Disorder

  Those disorders that have a disturbance in mood as their predominant feature.

• Schizophrenia and Disorders with Psychotic Features

  Marked disorders of thought (delusions, hallucinations, or other thought disorder accompanied by disordered affect or behavior), and deterioration from a previous level of functioning.

• Mentally Ill

  Persons with psychiatric illnesses or diseases, particularly psychotic and severe mood disorders.

• Unipolar Depression

  An affective disorder manifested by either a dysphoric mood or loss of interest or pleasure in usual activities. The mood disturbance is prominent and relatively ...

• Schizophrenic Disorder

  A severe emotional disorder of psychotic depth characteristically marked by a retreat from reality with delusion formation, hallucinations, emotional disharmony, and regressive behavior.

• Affective Disorder

  Those disorders that have a disturbance in mood as their predominant feature.