The basics of Schizophrenia

1. Explain the general symptoms of paranoid-type schizophrenia
Delusions of persecution, reference exalted birth, special mission, bodily change or jealousy.
Hallucinatory voices that threaten the patient or give commands or auditorty hallucinations without verbal form such as whistling
hallucinations of smell or taste

2. Explain the general symptoms of disorganized type schyzophrenia
Active but in aimless and not constructive way
bizarre and innapropiate emotional response
innability to feel pleasure
lack of emotion and motivation

3. Explain the general symptoms of catatonic type schyzophrenia
Physical innmobility
excesive mobility
extreme resistance
peculiar movements
mimichking speech or movement

4. 3 positive symptoms of schizophrenia
delusions
hallucinations
disorganzied speech thinking

5. 3 negative symptoms of schyzophrenia
affective flattening
alogia
avolition

6. difference between hallucination and delusion
Delusions are firmly held erroneous beliefs due to exagerations of reasoning or misinterpretations of perceptions or experiences while on the other way hallucinations are distortions or exaggerations of perception in any of the senses.

7. 3 cognitive symptoms of schyzophrenia
disorganized thinking
slow thinking
difficult understanding

8. Symptom of avolition
is the reduction, difficulty or innability to initiate and persist in goal directed behavior.

9. Symptom of catatonia
mental condition causing total rigidity.

10. delution of grandeur
a delution in which one believes oneself possesed of great importance, power, wealth or ability
example. thinking you are a famous soccer player or rock star.

11. Delution of reference
when things in the environment seem to be directly related to you even though they are not.
example. it may seem as if peoplea re talking about you or special personal messages are being communicated to you through the TV or radio.

12. Somatic delution
are false beliefs about your body
example. that a physical illness exist