Talk:Mental status examination

message: The "Within the profession" part of the article does not maintain a NPOV and should be revised.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.11.11.100 (talk) 07:38, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: "Some schemes look at ego psychology and defence mechanisms while others are less broad" -- evidence? --Anonymaus (talk) 03:18, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categories 

message: I notice this is up for GAC. I may pick it up later for a formal review (if I have the time). In the meantime, could I suggest it is brought up to WIAGA standards - the main issue being formatting - why the boldface? Some citations also look a bit clumsy - bare URLs or URLs without a description. Ideally,  should be used for those. JFW | T@lk 09:01, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Formatting 

message: Why do we have a picture of The Scream here?  That's really high school.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68Kustom (talk • contribs) 01:28, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, why the heck are all those paintings used to describe mental state?  Ridiculous.  68Kustom (talk) 01:36, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Having illustrations is a criterion for a wikipedia article being rated as a "good article": see WP:GA (the GA reviewer more or less insisted that I put images in - see above). I guess it also makes the article as a whole easier to look at. If you want to find something relevant but less ""high school" than The Scream, then you're welcome to put it in. Regards, --Anonymaus (talk) 23:10, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture? 

message: "It is a structured way of observing and describing a patient's current state of mind, under the domains of appearance, attitude, behavior, mood and affect, speech, thought process, thought content, perception, cognition, insight and judgement."
Did anybody bother to actually answer the simple question: 
Does a structured way of observing and describing a patient's current state of mind, under the domains of appearance, attitude, behavior, mood and affect, speech, thought process, thought content, perception, cognition, insight and judgement exist? 
Noting that this question can be obtained from the quoted phrase from the wikipedia page by replacing the 'It is' at the start with a 'does' and changing the full stop (or period if you're American) at the end into a question mark, then stopping and wondering what the question means!
If you apply a few standard methods from various parts of the mathematical literature at suitably mathematical parts of this question, and there are so many ways that this can be done that it doesn't make sense to bother working one out, you'll quickly come to the natural conclusion that the answer is NO!
Now how on earth can a large number of people in high places in the psychiatric system share the delusion that the answer could possibly be YES, and that the 'structured thingamagic' they're taught actually do what they think it does (given the impossibility of it actually doing so)... and somehow not be aware of this despite the fact that their 'sacred textbooks' spend a good deal of time talking about the problem of delusional people often being unaware of their delusions... how on earth have the people in charge of ensuring that the mental health system works managed to fail to notice this??  —Preceding unsigned comment added by John Allsup (talk • contribs) 14:52, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interesting question... 

message: I got an email from forensic psychologist Karen Franklin saying they were two different things, that mental status exams were "just routine exams like check-ups in medical practice" while mental state exams were more "exams focusing on questions like insanity." FYI.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 15:28, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mental status exams versus Mental state exams 

message: None of these assessments should be performed (for purpose of illness diagnosis) without first screening for constipation, blockages and gut flora/metabolism related issues. Each of these can have significant effect on results while the target of assessment may be unaware of such issues present if they are chronic (but reversible with diet and habit changes). This is because each of these can lead to toxic/rotting matter building up in the body and brain acts strongly (behavior depends on the cognitive function preference ordering to some degree) to presence of such.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:14BB:41:5FE2:156C:A26A:324A:FFA6 (talk) 09:02, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flaws in psychiatric diagnosis