What are the Symptoms of Schizophrenia?
There are a few different types of schizophrenia, so the symptoms might vary widely. In order to make doctors' lives easier, they have been classified in three major categories – positive, negative and cognitive.
Positive symptoms
Positive symptoms are not actually positive, but they are not aggressive. Patients can live with them and adopt a relatively normal life. They might include delirious thoughts, repetitive moves, hallucinations or ideas that have nothing to do with the reality. Behavioral problems are just as common, since a schizophrenic patient might stop talking out of nowhere, without even finishing the idea or sentence.
Negative symptoms
Negative symptoms represent a loss of emotional abilities. The same rule applies to behavioral abilities. The loss can be partial or total, while symptoms include a neglected hygiene, social isolation, lack of motivation or losing the interest for everyday activities or hobbies.
Cognitive symptoms
Cognitive symptoms include obvious problems affecting the attention or memory. They can become the most problematic ones in schizophrenia, since they often interfere with the ability to perform daily activities. Some of the most obvious, but also very harmful cognitive symptoms include memory issues, problems in staying focused or attentive and issues in understanding the purpose of particular information.
Positive symptoms
Positive symptoms are not actually positive, but they are not aggressive. Patients can live with them and adopt a relatively normal life. They might include delirious thoughts, repetitive moves, hallucinations or ideas that have nothing to do with the reality. Behavioral problems are just as common, since a schizophrenic patient might stop talking out of nowhere, without even finishing the idea or sentence.
Negative symptoms
Negative symptoms represent a loss of emotional abilities. The same rule applies to behavioral abilities. The loss can be partial or total, while symptoms include a neglected hygiene, social isolation, lack of motivation or losing the interest for everyday activities or hobbies.
Cognitive symptoms
Cognitive symptoms include obvious problems affecting the attention or memory. They can become the most problematic ones in schizophrenia, since they often interfere with the ability to perform daily activities. Some of the most obvious, but also very harmful cognitive symptoms include memory issues, problems in staying focused or attentive and issues in understanding the purpose of particular information.