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1.3 Mental Status Examination

Psychiatry Boot Camp

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What Is the Difference Between Fast and Pressured Speech?

In my mental status examination, I put any gross abnormalities of speech. So that kind of describes the patient's behavior moving into speech. What do we want to know about the patient's speech? Yes. In terms of the rate of speech, could you walk through the difference between talking fast and pressured speech?Yes. A pressure of speech is a function of the pressure of thought. They have so many thoughts that they just can't simply can't talk fast enough to get them all out. And sometimes you may not be able to link them together.

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