Psychosis
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- Created on: 26-04-22 19:05
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2. What is Anhedonia?
- Apathy; inability to initiate and persist in various activities
- Lack of pleasure of loss of interest in normally pleasurable/interesting things (e.g. good, sex, work)
- Relative absence in either the amount of content of speech
3. Residual (or recovery stage) is when...
- When Sz is usually diagnosed and symptoms most severe or prominent
- Negative symptoms tend to persist more; may be some attenuated positive ones
- Friends and family might notice strange behaviour; individual may want to be alone much of the time (negative symptoms)
4. Hallucinations are a positive symptom of psychosis. Which statement best describes hallucinations...
- Largely a result of disordered/fragmented thought creating a word salad and neologisms and clang associations.
- Reduction in emotional repression and withdrawal from the outside world.
- Disorder of perception. Distortions of real perceptual cues or perception in absence of external stimuli
- Disorder of cognition, faulty interpretations of reality and a fixed belief with no factual evidence and not held by most people.
5. How many people is it estimated are living with schizophrenia around the world?
- 2.4 million
- 240,000
- 24 million
- 24 billion
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