Take/Pass The Mental Status Exam ... Self Test ...Read this over and over again until you fully understand.  Practice many times then take the Exam and Pass!

This is the preparation for you to Pass  the Mental Status Exam.  Read very carefully and understand the Mental Status Exam questions and how to answer them correctly to your best ability and knowledge.  Mental Health terminologies and questions are explained -- Clinicians giving the Mental Status Exam make the observation on your Appearance, Speech and your Behavior.  Please make eye contact that is normal -- WITHOUT staring/not blinking at all/glaring, but at appropriate distance  without hostile facial expressions such as frowns.   Talk in a nice tone.  Your appearance should be neat -- that you have been attending to your good hygiene habits and health.  If you look disheveled or  look like didn't eat, bathe or sleep for weeks (this might call for hospitalization or this might be a symptom of depression), or drunk, or outbursts of anger or aggressiveness -- is more than reasonable to think there might be a problem.  Affect  is emotions, Full Affect is normal.  But Not Normal can be Constricted (limited, inhibited).   Flat (lack of emotions that are normal).   Labile affect is rapid abrupt emotion without external stimuli, without  apparent reason.   Mood -- Euthymic is  normal positive mood, without Hyperthymia   (unusual happy mood) or Dysthymia (depressed).   Euphoric (elated, extremely high with or without drug use).  Or Irritable.   More importantly, Doctors and clinicians will ask you routinely, even with every appointments -- if you want to harm yourself or others.  Answer honestly, Suicidality -- at risk for suicide, attempts,  ideation --thoughts, intent or plan or want to harm self -- you might be hospitalized.  You might also be hospitalized if you have Homocidality -- tendency to harm or have intent  or plan to harm others.  Hallucinations -- if you are hearing or seeing things are NOT really there.   Derealization --  feelings that your surroundings are Not Real, or you feel you are out of reality.   Depersonalization-- in your mind  your thoughts and feelings are Not Real/Unreal or these thoughts and feelings do Not belong to oneself, or in which one loses all sense of identity.  Delusions -- False beliefs or judgments about oneself or external reality.  If there are none-- NO delusional thoughts.   But Grandiose is imposing/pretense of excessive grandeur about oneself.  Paranoid -- suspicious or mistrustful of people or things.  Religious Delusions -- preoccupied, obsessed or grandiose with religious content, or pretense of being religious constantly. Cooperative Behavior  is very important.  Less than cooperative can be guarded, hyperactive, agitated, stereotyped or paranoid, aggressive, bizarre withdrawn or other.   You could ask questions and be cooperative if you communicate really well.   Definitely Do not be aggressive or be hostile or use abusive language!  This never is appropriate behavior!    Insight and Judgment  should be good -- cannot just make fair or poor judgments!    Alertness and Responsiveness shows your level of consciousness.  Awareness and Orientation is very important that you know the time and where you are and know the date and location.  Motor Movement -- Normal.  Not restless, tic, or slowed.   Gait -- they may ask you to walk few steps.   Dexterity -- task skills performed using  hands.  Speech  will indicate level of agitation, aggressiveness, anxiety, stress and much more.   It's very important to have your speech that is calm, relaxed -- speech that shows thought process that logically flows one thought after another.  Answer the question directly giving obvious answers.  Not Tangential -- go off on a tangent, unrelated or irrelevant  statements never answering the question.   Or Pressured (unusually talking fast, jumps from one idea to another),  Impoverished speech, unusually quiet, poor speech, it is so difficult for you to speak.  Thought Content might show your character and how intelligent you are, but thought content  supposed to be just as opposed to hallucinatory thoughts such as making remarks about seeing things Unreal, statements that are out of unclear thoughts or saying things which Does not make Sense.  Or you yourself do not  know what you said a second ago.  They may ask you 3 objects to remember for Memory.  It is Normal  to remember 3 things in few minutes!   Please  pay attention!  Or otherwise they will check off for Memory  or Attention Impairment or Distracted! 

Take a big breath, take your time, prepare and train yourself  to take the Self-tested Mental Status Exam,  and pass.  For most of the questions you never did have any problems!  Take the Self Exam and Pass -- I will email back the Evaluation and Counseling and Support.  Remember, even Some people who  do not have any mental health problems will Not score 100%. 

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