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Mood-Congruent

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Definition:
Symptoms are mood-congruent if they are consistent with a patient's current mood or in keeping with current circumstances. For example:
  • Feeling sad when someone close dies
  • Having a hallucination of seeing and/or talking with a family member who recently died
  • Smiling when one receives a gift
See mood incongruent.
Pronunciation: mood KONG-groo-uhnt, kuhn-GROO-uhnt
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