Is Your Mood Easier Than Normal?

"To some degree, deception is normal. People deceive other people to get what they need," she says. "Sometimes that can be maladaptive and can lead to problems down the road" If a patient seems to endorse every symptom of mania, ask them if they have racing thoughts or do you ever see people's thoughts spelled out above their head? You don't want to do all of those, because too much will seem fakey, but incorporating some of those questions then can help kind of your, okay, there's something not consistent with what we typically would see in a psychotic disorder.