A patient seen for psychiatric follow up visit gives very br…
A patient seen for psychiatric follow up visit gives very brief responses to all questions asked and talks in a monotone. The APRN asks the patient to name the time in the past month when he felt happiest. The patient responds, “When I went to the grocery.” The APRN then says, “Tell me the saddest experience you had in the past month,” the patient responds, “I don’t have one,” again in a monotone voice without inflection or any display of emotion, never making eye contact. The APRN best describes his affect as: