Positive symptoms for Schizophrenia

What are the positive symptoms of schizophrenia?

Associative looseness Neologisms Echolalia Clang Association Word Salad Circumstantiality Tangentiality Cognitive retardation Pressured speech Flight of ideas Symbolic speech Thought blocking Thought insertion Thought deletion Magical thinking Paranoia Religiosity Bizarre Catatonia Motor agitation Motor Retardation Stereotyped behaviors Waxy flexibility Echopraxia Impaired impulse control Negativism Agitated behaviors

Associative looseness

Associative looseness: association of ideas and thought patterns that becomes so vague, fragmented, diffuse, and unfocused as to lack any logical sequences

Bizarre

Bizarre: Odd, Illogical, inappropriate, or unfounded, includes grimacing

Catatonia

Catatonia: pronounced increase or decrease in the rate and amount of movement

Circumstantiality

Circumstantiality: Including unnecessary and tedious details in conversations but eventually reaching the point

Clang Association

Clang Association: choosing words based on their sounds rather than their meanings and often involves words that rhyme or have a similar beginning sounds

Cognitive retardation

Cognitive retardation: Generalized slowing of thinking which is represented by delays in responding to questions or difficulty finishing thoughts

Echolalia

Echolalia: Pathological repeating of another's words

Echopraxia

Echopraxia: The mimicking of movements of another

Flight of ideas

Flight of ideas: Moving rapidly from one thought to the next, often making it difficult for others to follow the conversation

Impaired impulse control

Impaired impulse control: A reduced ability to resist one's impulses

Magical thinking

Magical thinking: Believing that thought or actions affect others (Ex: Wearing pajamas to make it snow)

Motor Retardation

Motor Retardation: A pronounced slowing of movement

Motor agitation

Motor agitation: Excited behavior such as running or pacing rapidly

Negativism

Negativism: A tendency to resist or oppose the requests or wishes of others

Neologisms

Neologisms: Words that have meaning for the patient but a different or nonexistent meaning to others

Paranoia

Paranoia: An irrational fear that another person intends to kill you

Agitated behavior

Posturing / Boundaries

Pressured speech

Pressured speech: Urgent or intense speech; resists allowing comments from others

Religiosity

Religiosity: a psychiatric disturbance in which a person experiences intense religious beliefs or experiences that interfere with normal functioning

Stereotyped behaviors

Stereotyped behaviors: Repetitive behaviors that do not serve a logical purpose

Symbolic speech

Symbolic speech: Using symbols instead of direct communication

Thought blocking

Thought blocking: A reduction or stoppage of thought (can be stopped by hallucinations)

Thought deletion

Thought deletion: A belief that thoughts have been taken or are missing

Thought insertion

Thought insertion: The uncomfortable belief that someone else has inserted thought into the brain

Waxy flexibility

Waxy flexibility: Maintaining a given posture inappropriately, usually seen in catatonia

Word Salad

Word Salad: jumble of words that is meaningless to the listener (the most extreme form of associative looseness)

Positive Symptoms are:

the presence of something that should not be present (hallucinations, delusions, paranoia, disorganized/bizarre thoughts, behavior, or speech.