Characteristics of SZ

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    • Schizphrenia is a long term mental condition involving a loss of contact with reality, a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behaviour, leading to faulty perception
    • Diagnosis of SZ is usualy made through the Diagnostic Statistical Manual, the DSM states that the individual needs to display 2 or more symptoms for a month or have 1 severe outburst to be diagnosed
    • Different types of SZ:
      Paranoid
      Disorganised
      Catatonic
    • Paranoid Schizophrenia
      Delusions and hallucinations are present but thought disorder, disorganized behaviour and affective flattening are not
    • Disorganized Schizophrenia
      Disorganized speach and behaviour are present along with affective flattening
    • Catatonic Schizophrenia
      Promenant psychomotor disturbances are present
    • Development of Schizophrenia
      Reactive Stage - withdrawn, eccentric, flat or unproductive
      Active Stage - symptoms appear, can last months - lifetime
      Residual Stage - returns to reactive stage after treatment
    • Alogia - Poverty of speech
      Avolition - unconcerened with surroundings
      Affective flattening - lack of emotion
    • Positive schizophrenia symptoms reflect an excess of normal functioning whereas negative symptoms reflect a loss of normal functioning
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