If you experience any one or more of the symptoms below and they cause you distress or prevent you from dealing effectively in your everyday life (e.g. in social activities and in relationships, at work, in your studies, etc.) then you may want to consider psychological services.
| Common complaints that might signal a need for Psychological Assessment include: |
| | Common complaints that might signal a need for Neuropsychological Assessment include: |
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- Worrying often and being unable to control it
- Feeling down, guilty or bad about oneself
- Having little interest in most things
- Difficulties with concentration and decision making
- Sleep disturbances
- Restlessness and inability to physically relax
- Low self-esteem and lack of confidence
- Unassertiveness
- Easily irritated
- Little or no energy
- Eating less or more
- Difficulties accepting, adjusting and coping with a significant event (e.g. medical diagnosis, bereavement, broken down relationship and redundancy).
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| - Short term memory problems
- Long term memory problems
- Inability to care for finances
- Losing items frequently
- Failure to recognize familiar faces
- Failure to recognize known items and their use
- Poor attention and concentration
- Poor decision-making
- Language problems (e.g. fluency, naming, pronunciation, comprehension, spelling, etc.)
- Confusion (day, time and place)
- Repetition and perseveration
- An unexplained change in personality
- Changes in emotional functioning (eg. increased anxiety or depression)
- Unexplained neurologic complaints
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