Schizophrenia Disorders

About 1 in every 100 person are diagnosed with schizophrenia

Symptoms of Schizophrenia

1. Disorganized Thinking
2. Disturbed Perceptions
3. Inappropriate Emotions and Actions

Disorganized Thinking: The thinking of a person with schizophrenia is fragmented and bizarre and distorted with false beliefs
-Disorganized thinking comes from a breakdown in selective attention

Delusions (false beliefs)
-Delusions of Persecution: people are out to get you
-Delusions of Grandeur: greater and more powerful than you really are

Disturbed Perceptions: hallucinations sensory experiences without sensory stimulation

Inappropriate Emotions and Actions: Laugh at inappropriate times, flat effect, senseless compulsive acts, and catatonia meaning motionless

              Positive vs. Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia
Positive: hallucinations, disorganized, and deluded in their talk

Negative: toneless voice-monotone, expressionless face, mute, and rigid body


                        Types of Schizophrenia
Disorganized Schizophrenia: Disorganized speech or behavior, or flat or inappropriate emotion
-Imagine the worst

Paranoid Schizophrenia: Preoccupation with delusions and hallucinations

Catatonic Schizophrenia: Flat Effect, waxy flexibility, and have parrot like manner in which they mimic another's speech and movements
Undifferentiated Schizophrenia: Many and varied symptoms