2024-06-26 MBH CRG Meeting

25467004 |Hyperaffectivity (finding)|

Clarify meaning and position in hierarchy.  

APA dictionary of psychology have a definition of affectivity: the degree of a person’s response or susceptibility to pleasure, pain, and other emotional stimuli. Evaluation of affectivity is an important component of a psychological examination; the therapist or clinician may look for evidence of such reactions as blunted affect, inappropriate affect, loss of affect, ambivalence, depersonalization, elation, depression, or anxiety.

https://dictionary.apa.org/affectivity

Consider

• Inactivate Is a relationship: 106131003 |Mood finding (finding)|
• New Is a relationship: 288545008 |Showing emotion (finding)|

 198288003 |Anxiety state (finding)|

Used extensively in the UK.

APA dictionary defines it as an older concept related to anxiety neurosis: https://dictionary.apa.org/anxiety-state

Consider:

• Inactivate concept
• Replaced by 21897009 | Generalized anxiety disorder (disorder) |
  • Add SYN to replacement concept: Anxiety state

102498003 |Agony (finding)|

Currently modeled as a subtype of Finding relating to grief and dying (finding) 

Consider:

• Inactivate Is a Relationship: Finding relating to grief and dying (finding) 
• Add Is a Relationship: Distress finding (finding)
• Add SYN:  Extreme distress
• Add DEF:  Intense, negative experience typically occuring in the context of intense physical or emotional pain as often occurs in the context of impending death and extreme emotional trauma