MSE

Appearance & Behaviour

1. General appearance
  1. Clothing
    • Unkempt
    • Clean / neat / well kempt
  2. Body built
2. Facial expression
  1. Omega sign - depressed
  2. Wide-open eyes - anxious
  3. Restricted / emotioneless - schizo, Parkinson
3. Social behaviour
  1. Overfriendly
  2. Indifference (not interested)
  3. Disinhibited
  4. Withdrawn
4. Posture
  1. Leaning forward
5. Movement
  1. Anxious
  2. Restless
  3. Rocking
  4. Picking fingernails
  5. Lip smacking
6. Abnormal movement
  1. Tics
  2. Echopraxia (copy movement)
  3. Waxy flexibility
  4. Tardive dyskinesia
7. Eye contact
8. Cooperative

Speech

1. Coherence & relevance
2. Rate
  1. Normal
  2. Slow
  3. Fast
3. Volume
  1. Excessive
  2. Reduced
4. Tone
  1. Loud
  2. Low
  3. Monotonous
5. Quantity
  1. Pressured
  2. Poverty

Mood & Affect

1. Mood
  1. Dysthymic - low mood / sad / depressed
  2. Elated / happy / euphoric
  3. Anxious / worry / fear
  4. Angry
  5. Euthymic
2. Affect
  1. Nature
    1. Depressed
    2. Happy
    3. Elated
  2. Appropriateness
  3. Range
    1. Broad
    2. Restricted
  4. Depth
    1. Normal
    2. Blunted
    3. Flat
  5. Lability
    1. Rapid shifts in emotion

Perceptions

2. Pseudohallucination
3. Illusion
4. Depersonalization
  1. “Rasa roh seolah2 keluar drpd badan”
5. Derealization
  1. “Rasa seolah2 berada di awang-awangan”

Thought

1. Stream of speech
  1. Pressured
  2. Reduced
  3. Thought block
2. Possession
  1. Thought insertion
  2. Thought withdrawal
  3. Thought broadcasting
3. Form
  1. Flight of ideas
    1. Punning & rhyming
  2. Loosening of association
    1. Circumstantiality
    2. Tangentiality
    3. Derailment
    4. Word salad
    5. Neologism
    6. Verbal perseveration
  3. Content
    1. Delusion
    2. Overvalued ideas
    3. Obsessions
    4. Suicidal ideation

Cognitive

Judgement

Insight