negative symptoms

• what are negative symptoms

  a loss of usual experience or normal functioning

  • less able to cope with everyday life
  • affect their ability to cope without significant help at home
  • may not be aware of their negative symptoms or may not believe them to be as bad as family members do
• avolition

  severe lack of motivation to do any purposeful activity, making it hard to get anything done

  • some signs may be poor hygiene or lack of energy
• speech poverty

  lack f speech fluency and productivity

  could be a delay in their response during conversations

  • research has shown that they can produce less words spontaneously in a task of verbal fluency, not because of knowing less but because its harder to produce them
  • may result in them choosing to engage in less conversations and give short responses