Symptoms of Schizophrenia
- Created by: Thunder1107
- Created on: 11-10-17 11:53
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- Schizophrenia and symptoms
- Negative
- A minimising or loss of normal functions
- Affective flattening - a lack of emotions (blank expression)
- Physical Anhedonia - An inability to enjoy things from past
- Social Anhedonia - they find it hard to speak to people
- Avolition - apathy, lack of motivation to follow plans e.g. washing
- Alogia - where speech becomes lessened, less coherent sentences.
- Positive
- These are an excess of a distortion of normal function
- Delusions
- A belief that is very unlikely or obviously untrue
- Paranoid delusions - someone is trying to mislead, hurt or kill them
- Delusion of Grandeur - they believe they have powers or authoriy
- On a mission from god, being a secret agent
- Hallucinations
- Auditory/visual - Usually hearing voices
- Voices are critical and unfriendly
- They may smell, taste + feel things that are not there
- Catatonic or disorganised behaviour
- A person behaves in ways that seem inappropriate to societal norms
- E.g. wearing lots of clothing when it is hot, staying in the same position for lengths of time
- Disorganised speech
- A person's speech is unclear
- Their sentences may make little sense or change topic very quickly with little connection
- Overview
- A main feature is a split between emotions and thinking
- It involves a range of psychotic symptoms (reality break)
- They normally lack insight into their condition
- They must follow a pattern of symptoms
- It can be described as disintegration of personality
- Onset- Men: 18–25 years; women: 25–35 years
- It affects 1% of the population
- Men are more likely to suffer than women
- Negative
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