bizarre beliefs that seem real to the person with schizophrenia, but are not real. Sometimes delusions can be paranoid in nature. May involve inflated beliefs about person's power and importance
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Experience of control
The person may believe they are under the control of an alien force that has invaded their mind and body
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Hallucinations
Bizarre, unreal perceptions of the environment that are usually auditory but may also be visual, olfactory (smelling things) or tactile (felling bugs etc. on skin)
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Disordered thinking
The feeling that thoughts have been inserted or withdrawn from the mind. In some cases the person may belief that others can hear what they are thinking.
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Affective flattening
reduction in the range and intensity of emotional expression (facial expression, body language, tone of voice etc.)
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Alogia
poverty of speech
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Avolition
Reduction of or inability to initiate and persist in goal-directed behaviour.
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
The person may believe they are under the control of an alien force that has invaded their mind and body
Back
Experience of control
Card 3
Front
Bizarre, unreal perceptions of the environment that are usually auditory but may also be visual, olfactory (smelling things) or tactile (felling bugs etc. on skin)
Back
Card 4
Front
The feeling that thoughts have been inserted or withdrawn from the mind. In some cases the person may belief that others can hear what they are thinking.
Back
Card 5
Front
reduction in the range and intensity of emotional expression (facial expression, body language, tone of voice etc.)
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