Paranoid Type Schizophrenia Symptoms: A person diagnosed with schizophrenia may experience hallusinations, delusions, and disorganized speech.
Disorganized Type Schizophrenia Symptoms: Active behavior, but in an aimless and not constructive way, bizarre and inappropriate emotional responses, difficulty feeling pleasure false, fixed beliefs (delusions), Lack of motivationSeeing or hearing things that aren't there (hallucinations), strange or silly behavior and speech that makes no sense.
Catatonic Type Schizophrenia: disturbances of movement. People with catatonic-type schizophrenia may keep themselves completely immobile or move all over the place. They may not say anything for hours, or they may repeat anything you say or do senselessly. Either way, the behavior is putting these people at high risk because it impairs their ability to take care of themselves.
Positive Symptoms of Schizophrenia:
Positive symptoms of schizophrenia are those symptoms that involve an excess of normal bodily functions. For instance, if you are schizophrenic your senses may operate at a heightened and excessive state. Positive signs of schizophrenia include delusions, or beliefs that have no basis in reality. You may feel persecuted (paranoid delusions), you may feel as if the television or radio is talking directly to you (delusions of references), you may hold false beliefs about your physical state (somatic delusions) or you may feel that you have special abilities or powers (delusions of grandeur).
Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia:
Negative symptoms of schizophrenia are those symptoms that involve a decrease in normal bodily functions. These symptoms may involve withdrawal from society or refusal to speak. Schizophrenics often are disinterested in life and lack the ability to act in order to achieve simple goals. If you are suffering from the disorder, your voice may become monotone or you may be unable to change facial expressions or body language according to mood.
Difference Between Allucinations and Delusions:
-Hallucinations are perceptions that occur without connection to an appropriate source.
-Delusions are false personal beliefs that are not subject to reason or contradictory evidence and are not explained by a person's usual cultural beliefs.
Congentive Symptoms of Schizophrenia: poor "executive functioning" (the ability to absorb and interpret information and make decisions based on that information), nability to sustain attention, and problems with "working memory" (the ability to keep recently learned information in mind and use it right away).
Symptom of Avolition:
Avolition is a symptom of psychological or psychiatric distress characterized by a lack of motivation or drive. People with avolition have difficulty starting and completing tasks, and may be disinterested in the world around them. This symptom is often a part of schizophrenia, and can appear in people with bipolar disorder as well. Treatment of avolition depends on how severe it is, and what the cause is.
Symptom of Catatonia: Catatonia is a condition characterized by psychomotor disturbance, an interruption of normal movement. Catatonic features can occur with major depression, bipolar disorder I and II, schizoaffective disorder and schizophrenia. In some cases, catatonia may also be an extreme side effect of a medication.
delusion of grandeur:
-Hallucinations: are perceptions that occur without connection to an appropriate source. Although hallucinations can occur in any sensory form - auditory (sound), visual (sight), tactile (touch), gustatory (taste) and olfactory (smell) - hearing voices that other people do not hear is the most common type of hallucination in schizophrenia. Voices are usually thoughts that are in the mind of the person. They can describe activities taking place, carry on a converation, warn of dangers, or even issue orders to to person. The thoughts can appear to be so loud that the person may believe that people nearby will also be able to hear them. The mind usually adjusts to this very rapidly and as a result the thoughts then appear to come from some external source. It is possible, using a medical imaging technique, to see changes in the speech area of the brain at the time when a person says that he is hearing the voices. This is a real experience, it is not imaginary.
-Illusions: occur when a sensory stimulus is present but is incorrectly interpreted by an individual.
-Delusions: are false personal beliefs that are not subject to reason or contradictory evidence and are not explained by a person's usual cultural beliefs. Delusions may take on different themes. For example, people suffering from paranoid-type symptoms - roughly one-third of people with schizophrenia - often have delusions of persecution, or false and irrational beliefs that they are being cheated, harassed, poisoned or conspired against. These people often believe that a member of their family or someone close to them is making them happen. Delusions of grandeur, in which a person believes he or she is a famous or important person, mnay also occur in schizophrenia. Sometimes the delusions experienced by people with schizophrenia are quite bizarre; for instance, believing that a neighbour is controlling thier behaviour with magnetic waves; that people on television are directing special messages to them; or that their thoughts are being broadcast aloud to others. A person experiencing delusions may try to keep them secret, knowing that others would not understand. Other individuals are gradually overwhelmed and begin to act strangely according to the content of the delusional explanations.
Delusion of Reference: Delusions of reference refers to the strongly held belief that random events, objects, behaviors of others, etc. have a particular and unusual significance to oneself.
A person might believe that secret messages about him are broadcast in a weekly television show, to the point where he would record the programs and watch them again and again.
Somatic Delusion: a delusion concerning the body image or parts of the body.
