Symptoms and Features of SZ

Question 1

What is schizophrenia?

Answer 1

• A long-term mental disorder which makes it difficult to distinguish between what is real and imagined
• Characterised by positive symptoms, such as delusions, and negative symptoms, such as apathy

Question 2

What is a feature?

Answer 2

The general information of the disorder

Question 3

What are 5 features of schizophrenia?

Answer 3

1) Recognised in every country and culture - 1% of population suffer from it
2) Most common mental illness in the world
3) More common in poorer sections of communities
4) More common and severe in men
5) Cannot be cured

Question 4

What is a symptom?

Answer 4

Individual behaviours of the patient associated with the disorder

Question 5

What is a positive symptom?

Answer 5

Behaviours which are additional to typical behaviours that can be affected by culture

Question 6

List 4 positive symptoms

Answer 6

1- Thought insertion
2- Hallucinations
3- Delusions
4- Disordered thinking

Question 7

What is thought insertion?

Answer 7

Feeling as if one’s thoughts are not one’s own

Question 8

What are hallucinations?

Answer 8

Sensations, that appear to be real, but are created within the mind

Question 9

What are delusions?

Answer 9

Fixed, false beliefs that conflict with reality

Question 10

What is disordered thinking

Answer 10

A failure to be able to think straight

Question 11

What is a negative symptom?

Answer 11

Behaviours which are missing from typical behaviour and often start before positive

Question 12

List 3 negative symptoms

Answer 12

1- Poverty of speech
2- Social withdrawal
3- Apathy

Question 13

What is poverty of speech?

Answer 13

Extrusive verbal feedback that contains little useful information

Question 14

What is social withdrawal?

Answer 14

Avoiding people/activities

Question 15

What is apathy?

Answer 15

Lack of feeling/emotion