Positive and negative symptoms of Schizophrenia

Word salad

A jumble of words that is meaningless to the listener-and perhaps the listener as well- because of an extreme level of disorganization

Somatic Hallucinations

Believing that the body is changing in an unusual way

Illusions

Misperceptions or misinterpretations of a real experiene (coat on a rack is a bear about to attack)

Affective flattening

Negative A reduction in the facial expression, range and intensity of affect

Thought blocking

Negative A sudden interruption in the thought process, usually due to internal stimuli

Anhedonia

Negative Inability to experience pleasure in activities that usually produce it; result of profound emotional barreness

Anergia

Negative Lack of energy; passivity, lack of persistence at work or school

Alogia

Negative Reduced amount of speech, reponses range from brieg to one word answers

Avolition

Negative Reduced motivation; inability to initiate tasks such as social contacts, grooming, and other ADL's

Erotomanic

Positive Believing another desires you romanticly

Grandeur

Postive Believeing that one is a very powerful or important person

Control of delusions

Postive Believing that another person, group of people, or external force controls thoughts, feelings, impulses, or behavior

Persecution

Postive Believing that one is being singled out for harm by others; often manifest as a plot by people in power

Jealousy

Postive Believing that one's mate in unfaithful

Tactile Hallucinations

Postive Feeling strange sensations on the skin where no external objects stimulate such feelings; common in delirium tremens (DT's)

Ideas of reference

Postive Giving personal significance to trivial events; percieving events as relating to you when they are not

Auditory Hallucinations

Postive Hearing voice of sounds that do not exist in the environment but are misperceptions of the inner thoughts or feelings

Visual Hallucinations

Postive Seeing a person, object, animal, colors, or visual patterns that do not exist in the environment

Gustatory Hallcinations

Postive Tasting sensations that do not exist

Olfactory Hallucinations

Smelling odors that do not exist

Clang

The choice of words based upon their sound rather than their meaning, often rhyming and sometimes having a similar beginning sound (on the track...have a big mac)

Anosognosia

The inability to realize on is ill, which is caused by the illness (schizophrenia)

Echopraxia

The mimicking of movements of another; often seen in catatonia

Depersonalization

The nonspecific feeling that person has lost his or her identity and the self is different or unreal, Body parts don't belong to them or body has drastically changed ( fingers as snakes, arm as rotting wood)

Echolalia

The pathological repeating of another's words; often seen in catatonia

Neologisms

make up words that have meaning for the pt but different or nonexistent meaning to others