Table 1: Clinical Classification of Psychological Response to Steroids
Grade Definition
1 Mild euphoria, lessened fatigue, improved sensation, increased sense of intellectual capacity.
2 Heightened euphoria. Patients are effusive, expansive, volatile, hypomanic, exhibit flight of ideas, impaired judgment, refractory insomnia.
3 Difference responses to reflecting the ego characteristics of the patient, such as anxiety, phobia, rumination, obsessional preoccupation, hypomania, or depression.
4 Grossly psychotic reaction with hallucinations, delusions, extreme variations in mood.
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