ProSymptomScreenExpanded
Expanded Biologically Based Medication Responsive Symptom List with Atypical Cluster
Unstable Mood-Cluster A - Classic "Bipolar" or Unstable Mood Traits-Symptoms or Disorders
1) [ ] Too happy, cheerful, enthusiastic, silly, giddy, goofy, overly friendly, even with strangers
2) [ ] Brief periods of sadness, irritable and whiny, cries over small annoyances and hurts
3) [ ] Often unpleasant, nasty, mean, irritable, excitable, short fuse, easily made angry
4) [ ] Demanding , defiant, hard to please, difficult to live with, like walking on egg shells
5) [ ] Quick, frequent , intense, mood changes , with ups and downs like Dr. Jeckle & Mr. Hyde
6) [ ] Tantrums, can’t calm self down in 20 minutes, seizure like rages lasting minutes to hours
7) [ ] Injures self on purpose, self mutilates, bangs head, hits and bites self, punches wall
8) [ ] Verbally - physically abusive ,aggressive to others, violent, destructive to property
9) [ ] Thinks too highly of self, unrealistic big ideas, need to be boss, in charge, bullies peers
10) [ ] Needs very little sleep, yet seems rested, too much and fast emotionally charged speech
11) [ ] High physical -mental energy, doing more and more with goals at home, school, work
12) [ ] High energy person, only low energy is by severe headaches, stomach-intestinal problems
13) [ ] Excessively involved in pleasurable things with potentially painful consequences
14) [ ] Not thinking about consequences of behavior, speech, goals, plans, or relationships
15) [ ] Concentration changes excessively with mood, easily distracted by minor & irrelevant things
Thinking- Relatedness- Reality Testing-Cluster B-Classic Schizophreniform Like Traits-Symptoms-Disorders
1) [ ]Hallucinations- hearing, seeing, tasting, feeling, smelling or sensing things that aren’t real
2) [ ]Delusions – believing things that aren’t based on reality, like one is god, the famous, very bad
3) [ ]Paranoia - reading hidden meanings into things, people out to get, hurt, deceive, harm you
4) [ ]Oddness – being peculiar, different, strange, bizarre, eccentric, unusual in behavior
5) [ ] Illogicalness – thinking and behavior doesn’t make sense, is disorganized
6) [ ]Disconnectedness- a disconnect, or loose connection between thoughts-feelings-behavior
7) [ ]Blocking – thinking gets stuck or blocked, so there is inability to finish or start a thought
8) [ ]Psychomotor Abnormalities – mind-body is too slow, too fast, mind fast body slow, vice versa
9) [ ] Repeating – repeating what is done [echopraxia] or said [echolalia] like an echo
10) [ ] Negativism- motiveless resistance to directives, being physically rigid, Mutism
11) [ ] Posturing- peculiar postures, movements , mannerism, grimacing, but not tics
12) [ ] Emotionless- diminished, blunted, inappropriate emotional responses and reactivity
13) [ ] Anhedonia - diminished , little or lack of interest or pleasure in most things
14) [ ] Avolition- lack or diminished drive , very difficult if not impossible to start and finish things
15) [ ] Alogia – diminished or lack of speaking, or thinking, or representations of such like writing
Movement-Impulse-Cluster C- Classic Tic or Tourette's Like Traits-Symptoms-Disorders
1) [ ] Simple Motor Tics- rapid meaningless muscle contraction of few muscles like eye blinking
2) [ ] Simple Vocal Tics - sniffs, snorts, clicks, throat clearing, grunts, coughs, barks, yelps, giggle
3) [ ] Complex Motor- touching, squatting, twirling & retracing steps when walking, repeating
4) [ ] Complex Vocal- saying and repeating words, phrases, part of songs
5) [ ] Motor Driven Compulsions- doing things over and over, rituals driven by tics
6) [ ] Motor Driven “ADHD type symptoms”- over active, impulsive, inattention driven by tics
Depression-Cluster D- Classic "Stable Mood" or Unipolar Traits-Symptoms-Disorders
1) [ ] Depression- sad mood, tearful, whiney, easily cries, irritable, feels empty and alone
2) [ ] Interest- diminished pleasure and interest in most things, don’t care, too bored attitude
3) [ ] Body Weight- significant weight loss or gaining, eating too much or too little, not dieting
4) [ ] Sleep- sleeping too much, too little, waking up cant fall back to sleep, never feels rested
5) [ ] Mind/Body Energy- as observed by others either too slowed down or speeded up
6) [ ] Fatigue- loss of energy, always tired, fatigued, no motivation, drive, ambition
7) [ ] Negativity- worthless, guilty, ashamed, negative about self, present , past and future
8) [ ] Concentration- diminished ability to think, remember, concentrate, mind goes blank
9) [ ] Hopelessness- hopeless , recurrent thoughts of death, dying, suicide ideas, attempt, plan
Anxiety-Somatic- Cluster E- Anxiety, Phobic, Obsessive-Compulsive, Traumatic Traits-Symptoms-Disorders
1) [ ] Worried all the time, poor sleep, restless, keyed up, on edge, easily fatigued, irritable
2) [ ] Fear , embarrassment of social, performance situation, with unfamiliar people scrutinizing
3) [ ] Worry of not doing rituals, hand washing, checking, ordering, counting, repeating, praying
4) [ ] Panic attacks, heart pounds, shaking, short of breath, dizzy, lightheaded, losing control fear
5) [ ] Worry over losing & leaving loved one or home, or going to work/ school, sleep alone
6) [ ] Extreme fear, numbing, avoidance and re-experiencing trauma, abuse, neglect, catastrophes
7) [ ] Frequently ill, “always sick”, severe headaches, stomach/intestinal problems, rashes, allergic
Attention-Impulsive –Cluster F- Classic ADHD and other core"Attention" deficet Traits-Symptoms-Disorders
1) [ ] Hyperactive-on the go, into everything, frigidity, can’t be or sit still, even when sleeping
2) [ ] Inattention- can’t focus, concentrate on boring stuff for 15 minutes when left alone
3) [ ] Impulsive- doesn’t stop and think or, to focus on consequences before talking or doing
4) [ ] Excitable- short fuse, but recovers from anger or rage in less then 15 minutes
5) [ ] Doesn’t learn from life experiences, making the same non life changing mistakes over and over
Atypical Cluster -G “Category 7” – features of more than one other cluster and not fitting best into one, may in fact be a "Special" Class with it own unique brain chemistry and meditcation responses, and not a residual class at all, that is NOS or Not Otherwise Specified.
1) [ ]Uneven development as infant-child, loosing & gaining functions unpredictably like speech and language
2) [ ]Transitions cause panic anxiety or rage attacks, physical symptoms like hives, irritable bowel, headaches
3) [ ] Unusual sensitivities to touch, taste, positioning, sound, lights.
4) [ ] Poor eye contact, and poor non verbal communication using gestures, body language
5) [ ] Not getting social rules, and cues from other, not getting the point of jokes or riddles or social moves
6) [ ] Socially stiff, and awkward, verbally and non verbally, marches to his or her own drummer
7) [ ] Unusual or peculiar relatedness, but not overtly strange or bizarre, slightly off emotionally
8) [ ] Something just “not right” about how they relate, respond, react to people, even those they know well
9) [ ] Get stuck in doing something, and has to finish it, and if not panic, gets angry, or too upse