Symptoms;
1. Disorganized thinking
2. Disturbed perceptions
3. Inappropriate emotions and actions
Disorganized thinking: the thinking of a person with schizophrenia is fragmented and bizarre and distorted with false beliefs; comes from a breakdown in selective attention they cannot filter out information
Delusions( false beliefs).
-Delusions of persecution(think someone is after them)
-Delusions of grandeur (think they are heavenly like Jesus)
Disturbed perceptions:
-hallucinations: sensory experiences without sensory stimulation
Inappropriate emotions and actions: -laugh at inappropriate times
-flat effect: reduction in emotion
-senseless,compulsive acts
-catatonia: motionless, wavy flexibility
Positive symptoms:
-presence of inappropriate symptoms
Negative symptoms:
-absence if appropriate ones
Disorganized schizophrenia:
-disorganized speech it behavior or flat or inappropriate emotion
-imagine the worst
Paranoid schizophrenia:
-preoccupation with delusions Or hallucinations
-somebody is out to get me
Catatonic schizophrenia:
-parrot like repeating of another's speech and movements
Undifferentiated schizophrenia:
-many and varied symptoms
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