The document describes the phases of schizophrenia:
1) The prodromal phase involves social withdrawal, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, and impaired decision making without an apparent trigger.
2) During the acute/active phase, obvious psychosis emerges with hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized speech and behavior.
3) The residual phase resembles the prodrome with less obvious psychosis but continued negative symptoms like social withdrawal, lack of emotion, and low energy. Strange beliefs may persist.
The document describes the phases of schizophrenia:
1) The prodromal phase involves social withdrawal, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, and impaired decision making without an apparent trigger.
2) During the acute/active phase, obvious psychosis emerges with hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized speech and behavior.
3) The residual phase resembles the prodrome with less obvious psychosis but continued negative symptoms like social withdrawal, lack of emotion, and low energy. Strange beliefs may persist.
The document describes the phases of schizophrenia:
1) The prodromal phase involves social withdrawal, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, and impaired decision making without an apparent trigger.
2) During the acute/active phase, obvious psychosis emerges with hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized speech and behavior.
3) The residual phase resembles the prodrome with less obvious psychosis but continued negative symptoms like social withdrawal, lack of emotion, and low energy. Strange beliefs may persist.
- withdraw socially, little by little, - hallucinations - resembles schizophrenia
with no apparent triggering - paranoid delusions prodrome event present - extremely disorganized speech - obvious psychosis has subsided - uncharacteristically anxious and behaviors - negative symptoms, such as - have difficulty making decisions - obviously psychotic social withdrawal, a lack of and start to have trouble emotion, and concentrating and paying uncharacteristically low energy attention levels - although frank psychotic behaviors and vocalizations have disappeared, the patient may continue to hold strange beliefs Negative Symptoms • Apparent lack of emotion or small emotional range • Reduced ability to plan and follow-through with activities • Neglect of personal hygiene • Social withdrawal, decrease in talkativeness • Loss of motivations Positive Symptoms • Delusions – falsely held beliefs usually due to a distorted perception or experience. Delusions are the most common symptom of schizophrenia. • Thought disorder – difficulty organizing and expressing thoughts. This might result in stopping mid-sentence or speaking nonsensically; including the making up of words. • Disorganized behavior – unusual and inappropriate behavior. This might be childlike behavior or unpredictable agitation. • Movement disorder – agitated or repeated movements. Catatonia (non-moving and non-responsive) is also possible Cognitive Symptoms • Impaired memory and attention • Difficulty thinking through complicated processes, making sense of information • Impaired ability to organize • Poor decision-making • Difficulty in interpreting social cues Affective Symptoms • Gleeful or sad inappropriately • People with schizophrenia are often depressed or have mood swings