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mood
(mldbomacd)
a pervasive and sustained emotion that, when extreme, can color one's whole view of life; in psychiatry and psychology the
term is generally used to refer to either elation or depression. See also mood disorders.
mood-congruent
consistent with one's mood, a term used particularly in the classification of mood disorders. In disorders with psychotic features, mood-congruent psychotic features are grandiose delusions or related hallucinations occurring in a manic episode or depressive delusions or related hallucinations
in a major depressive episode, while mood-incongruent psychotic features are delusions or hallucinations that either contradict or are inconsistent with the prevailing emotions, such as delusions
of persecution or of thought insertion in either a manic or a depressive episode.
mood-incongruent
not mood-congruent.

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