scizophrenia symotoms and features

Question 1

what is a symptom

Answer 1

what people exerience when they have a dissorder

Question 2

what is a positive sympotom

Answer 2

anything that adds something to a person behaviour that was no there before

eg. delusions and hallucinations

Question 3

what is a negative symptom

Answer 3

distruptions to normal emotions and behaviour

eg. disorganised speech and disorganised or catatonic behaviour

Question 4

what are hallucinations

Answer 4

hearing or seeing something around you without any stimuli
patient must be conscious and fully awake
auiditory or visual

Question 5

what is a delusion

Answer 5

beliefs that are held by a patient despite not being ture they cannot be changed
false beliefs that do not correspond to reality
thought insertion is when the individual believes that their thoughts have been implanted by an external force

Question 6

what is disordered thinking

Answer 6

speech where ideas are loosely connected or unconncected
randomly skips from topic to topic

Question 7

what is a feature

Answer 7

facts about a disorder

Question 8

what are the features of schizophrenia

Answer 8

occur in 1% of the population

1/4 diagnosed recover and dont relapse

1/4 never recover

life expectancy is 10 or more years less

men - early to mid 20s

women - late 20s