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Schizophrenia
If you have schizophrenia it means that your perception of reality is impaired. This might result in hallucinations, delusions which can be paranoid, disorganized speech and/or thinking and social dysfunction. In severe cases the patient will become catatonic.
The symptoms of schizophrenia are often described as being positive or negative symptoms.
• Positive symptoms (sometimes called productive symptoms) schizophrenia hallucinationsschizophrenia delusions , sudden mood changes and thought disorder. (visual, hearing, touch, taste or smell),
• Negative symptoms, (sometimes called deficit symptoms) are when there is a loss of normal abilities, for example the ability to feel emotions, or the loss of the ability to speak.
• A third group of symptoms is described as ‘disorganization syndrome’, which includes symptoms such as chaotic speech, thought and behavior.
One of the main symptoms of Schizophrenia is schizophrenia delusions. These can include:
• Delusions that the sufferer is being persecuted (sometimes called paranoid delusions)
• Delusions that the sufferer is all-seeing
• Unfounded delusions about having other illnesses
• Delusions of being influenced or controlled by an external force or being, usually negative.
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