Symptoms and features

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    • Schizophrenia is a mental illness that affects the way someone thinks, speaks, or feels to such a degree that they have an altered perception of reality.
    • Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder, meaning an individual has lost touch with reality.
    • A diagnosis of schizophrenia can only be made after 1 month of active symptoms.
    • Positive symptoms of schizophrenia include hallucinations, delusions, thought insertion, disordered thinking, and thought broadcasting.
    • Negative symptoms of schizophrenia include poverty of speech, social withdrawal, and flattening affect.
    • Schizophrenia is a serious condition that affects about 0.7-1% of the population.
    • The average life expectancy for someone with schizophrenia is then or more years less than average due to physical health problems and the higher suicide rate.
    • Adolescents with psychotic symptoms are nearly 70 times more likely to attempt suicide.
    • Onset of schizophrenia is slightly earlier for males then females.
    • People who experience social problems, such as poverty and unemployment as well as possibly homelessness, are more likely to develop schizophrenia.
    • Types of schizophrenia include paranoid schizophrenia, disorganised schizophrenia, and catatonic schizophrenia.
    • Paranoid schizophrenia is characterised by someone being suspicious of others and having delusions of grandeur, often with hallucinations.
    • Disorganised schizophrenia is characterised by speech being disorganised and hard to follow, as well as the person having inappropriate moods for a given situation, with no hallucinations.
    • Catatonic schizophrenia is when someone is withdrawn and isolated and has little physical movement.
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