Thought components refer to the part of the mental status examination that looks at the content and the process of thinking. These content include delusions, distortions of body image, hallucinations, obsessions, suicidal or homicidal ideation, and many more. Process includes circumstantially, coherence, flight of ideas, logical thinking, intact as opposed to loose associations, organization, and tangentiality
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