Schizophrenia
Symptoms
Positive symptoms are where there is an addition to behaviour. Positive symptoms include include:
• Hallucinations – auditory – hearing things that don’t exist; visual – seeing things that don’t exist
• Delusions – false beliefs - paranoid – belief someone is out to get them; grandeur – believe they are in a position of power or possess a power
• Thought insertion – thinks their thoughts have been put there by someone else
• Thought withdrawal – think their thoughts have been taken
• Thought broadcasting – believe others can hear their thoughts
Negative symptoms are where something from behaviour is removed
• Poverty of speech – using few words
• Social withdrawal – lack of interaction
• Flattening of emotions
Diagnosis is based on 1 month of two or more positive symptoms
Symptoms
Positive symptoms are where there is an addition to behaviour. Positive symptoms include include:
• Hallucinations – auditory – hearing things that don’t exist; visual – seeing things that don’t exist
• Delusions – false beliefs - paranoid – belief someone is out to get them; grandeur – believe they are in a position of power or possess a power
• Thought insertion – thinks their thoughts have been put there by someone else
• Thought withdrawal – think their thoughts have been taken
• Thought broadcasting – believe others can hear their thoughts
Negative symptoms are where something from behaviour is removed
• Poverty of speech – using few words
• Social withdrawal – lack of interaction
• Flattening of emotions
Diagnosis is based on 1 month of two or more positive symptoms