symptoms

• Disorganised speech

  They may slip from one topic to another (derailment), even in mid-sentence, and in extreme cases their spech may be so incoherent that it sounds like complete gibberish – something that is often referred to as ‘word salad.’
• affective flatterning

  fa reduction in the range and intensity of emotional expression, voice tone, eye contact and body language. , individuals show fewer body and facial movements and smiles, and less co-verbal behaviour
• avolition

  a reduction of interests and desires as well as an inability to initiate and persist in goal-directed behaviour (e.g. sitting in the house for hours every day doing nothing).
• hallucinations

  bizarre, unreal perceptions of the environment that are usually auditory (hearing voices) but may also be visual. experiencing sensations that aren't caused by anything.
• catatonic behaviour

  includes the inability or motivation to initiate a task, or to complete it once it’s started which leads to difficulties in daily living and can result in decreased interest in personal hygiene.
• Anhedonia

  a loss of interest in pleasure in all or almost all activities, or a lack of reactivity to normally pleasurable stimuli.
• delusions

  bizarre beliefs that seem real to the person with schizophrenia, but they aren’t real. unshakable belief held with complete conviction, something very unlikely and strange
• speech poverty

  characterised by the lessening of speech fluency and productivity, this is thought to reflect slowing or blocked thoughts
• positive symptoms

  •Experienced IN ADDITION to normal experiences within ordinary existence.

  •Reflect an excess or distortion of normal functions.

  •Hallucinations

  •Delusions
• negative symptoms

  •Individual fails to display behaviours WE WOULD NORMALLY EXPECT TO SEE.

  •Represent the loss of a usual experience and normal functioning.

  •Therefore, by definition,  characteristics of schizophrenia are noticeable by their absence.

  •Speech poverty

  Avolition