Symptoms of schizophrenia

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• 1. The reduction of, or inability to, persist in goal-directed behaviour (for example, sitting in the house all day doing nothing) (9)
• 2. Bizarre beliefs that seem real to the person with schizophrenia, but aren't. Sometimes these beliefs can be paranoid and sometimes involve themselves, i.e. inflated beliefs about their own importance (9)
• 3. Poverty of speech, characterised by the lessening of speech fluency and productivity, thought to reflect slowed or blocked thoughts (6)
• 5. Refers to bizarre and abnormal motor movements. For example, holding the body in a rigid stance or peculiar facial movements (9, 9)
• 6. The feeling that thoughts have been inserted or withdrawn from the mind. In some cases the person may believe that their thoughts are being broadcast so that others can hear them (12, 8)
• 7. Unreal perceptions of the environment that are usually auditory, but may also be visual, or tactile (14)