A long term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behaviour, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings
What are positive symptoms?
Behaviours that are added to normal behaviour, hallucinations, delusions
Positive symptoms-
-Delusions
-Delusions of grandeur
-Paranoid delusions
-Auditory hallucinations
-Thought insertion
-Incoherent speech
-Catatonic behaviour
Delusions of grandeur -
-The sufferer believes he/she is someone important e.g Jesus or someone with special powers
Paranoid delusions-
-Belief that others want to harm the sufferer
Auditory hallucinations-
-Voices are heard which are mostly very critical or order that the sufferer to do something
Incoherent speech-
-Sufferers speech goes in every directions without following a logical and coherent thread, making it impossible for others to understand
Catatonic behaviour-
-Might be motionless for long periods of time, repetitive and aimless behaviour
Negative symptoms -
-Disorganised speech
-Disorganised behaviour
-Inappropriate affect
-Affective flattening
-Avolition
-Apathy
-Cataleptic stupor
-Anhedionia
Disorganised speech-
-Inappropriate speech
-E.G 'its raining...fruit trees in summer... acts of Jupiter in a sea of haze'
