Symptoms
Positive Symptoms: hallucinations, disorganized, word salad, inappropriate laughter, tears, or rage; presence of inappropriate symptoms
- Disorganized thinking: The thinking of a person with schizophrenia is fragmented, bizarre and distorted with false beliefs. Disorganized thinking comes from a breakdown in selective attention; they cannot filter out information
- "Word Salad": disordered thinking with sentences that are almost completely disconnected or unrelated
- Delusions: (false beliefs)
- Delusions of Persecution: "everyone is out to get me"
- Delusions of Grandeur: "I'm above everyone else"
- Inappropriate Emotions and Actions: Laugh at inappropriate times, flat affect (no emotion), senseless and compulsive acts
- Hallucinations: sensory experiences without sensory stimulation
- Attention Difficulties: easily distracted and has difficulty focusing on one line of thought
- Catatonia: motionless or frozen, often into "waxy flexibility" (you can reposition their arms and other limbs as if they were a doll and they will hold that position, however uncomfortable it may be)
Types of Schizophrenia
- Disorganized schizophrenia: disorganized speech or behavior, flat or inappropriate emotion, imagines the worst
- Paranoid Schizophrenia: preoccupation with delusions or hallucinations, paranoid
- Catatonic Schizophrenia: Parrot-like repeating of another's speech and movements
- Undifferentiated Schizophrenia: many and varied symptoms
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