Schizophrenia symptoms
Schizophrenia is a brain disease with many and various symptoms. This disease affects man and women, young and old from all sides of the world.
Typical symptoms of schizophrenia usually appear in late teenage. Sometimes schizophrenia will affect young children and they may experience slightly different symptoms.
First signs of schizophrenia often appear as confusing changes into a person behavior and are observed by family or friends. They are the one who announce the doctor. Unfortunately, the disease started usually long time ago.
Schizophrenia symptoms are divided into positive and negative symptoms because of their impact on diagnosis and treatment.
Most common symptoms are delusions and hallucinations (positive symptoms).
Let’s explain the symptoms.
Positive symptoms :
- Hallucinations can be: auditory (they hear voices), visual (see variety of things), olfactory, gustatory and tactile.
- Delusions – false beliefs – most common are that they are followed, spied, persecuted
- Disrupted thoughts and behavior: they don’t have any sense in what they are telling, can’t finish a phrase cause they pass to another subject
- Disorganized behavior: is affected the away that person think, speak and act. The speak problems are the one that are most obvious for family and friends.
Negative symptoms are :
- Affective flattening – they lose the intensity of their emotions, expressions
- Withdrawal from family, friends and social activities
- Moodiness - are having swings in mood, very sad or very happy
- Catatonia – patients can stearing at something hours and hours again without move their eyes, or can stay in a position without moving any part of their body at all
Disorganized symptoms, :
- Communication difficulties – are speaking using nonsense words, they pass to another subject without finishing the first one
- Memory problems – forget or lose things
- Obsessive occupations – such as composing, writing
- Difficulty in tacking decisions
- Repeating movements or gestures
Last update: 10/06/2008
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