Schizophrenia types and symptoms
- Created by: Alex Judge
- Created on: 25-04-13 11:46
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- Symptoms of SCH
- Positive Symptoms
- Hallucinations
- Seeing or hearing things that aren't there. Voices are often harsh or critical.
- Critical voices give running commentary whereas controlling voices tells someone what to do.
- Seeing or hearing things that aren't there. Voices are often harsh or critical.
- Delusions
- False beliefs, such as thinking thoughts and movements are being controlled by someone else.
- Grandeur
- Paranoia
- False beliefs, such as thinking thoughts and movements are being controlled by someone else.
- Thought Disorder
- Makes speech hard to follow. The speaker may loose concentration or have muddled thinking.
- Thought broadcasting is where someone else can hear their thoughts.
- Thought insertion is where their thoughts are put in thri heads by someone else.
- Makes speech hard to follow. The speaker may loose concentration or have muddled thinking.
- Addition of normal behaviour, usually thought related.
- Hallucinations
- Negative Symptoms
- Lack of Energy/Apathy
- E.G No motivation to carry out daily chores.
- Social Withdrawal
- E.G avoiding family/friends and refusing to go out.
- Flatness of Emotions
- The face becomes emotionless and the voice becomes dull with no rise or fall.
- Appearance
- Not looking after oneself and not agreeing to expectations of preserving oneself.
- A lack of normal symptoms
- Lack of Energy/Apathy
- Types of SCH
- Paranoid
- Suspicions of others and delusions of grandeur. Often hallucinations.
- Disorganised
- Speech is hard to follow and there are inappropriate mood swings. No hallucinations
- Catatonic
- Withdrawn and isolated, not a lot of physical movement.
- Residual
- Low level of positive symptoms but psychotic symptoms are present.
- Undifferentiated
- Don't fit into another type of SCH
- Paranoid
- SCH Stats
- 1/4 of people who have SCH have it continuously with no breaks.
- 50% have periods of recovery and periods of symptoms. Positive ones get recovered, negative ones remain.
- Positive Symptoms
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