Characteristics Flashcards
Approximately what percentage of the UK population suffers with schizophrenia?
1% - 1 in 100 people
What is the most common age of diagnosis?
15-35
What are positive symptoms of schiz?
Behaviours and thoughts that the individual did not have before they became ill.
What are negative symptoms of schiz?
Behaviours and thoughts that the individual used to have but have now lost or reduced since becoming ill.
What are delusions and what are the 2 types?
Delusions= beliefs that are not real.
Delusions of persecution= belief that they are being watched/followed or that someone is trying to harm them.
Delusions of grandiosity= belief that one is special in some way or take the identity of someone famous.
What are hallucinations and what are the 3 types?
Hallucinations= perceptions that are not real
Auditory= hearing voices/sounds that no one else can hear.
Visual= seeing objects/people that are not there.
Tactile= the feeling of being touched by something when they are not. most common is formication= sensation of bugs crawling on you.
What is disordered thinking/speech?
Thoughts jump from one subject to another with no reason
Speech = Sentences of someone w/ schiz maybe mixed up and difficult to understand = word salad
When do the initial onset of negative symptoms appear?
Usually during the promodal period of schiz = the period between the apperance of initial symptoms and full development of illness.
What is alogia?
Reduction in the amount of speech + speech may lack any meaning.
What is avolition?
Individual loses interest/motivation in life and activities that they once used to enjoy such as going to work or sex.
What is anhedonia?
Individual may develop the inability to feel pleasure. May lead to individual not acting appropriately during pleasurable experiences.
What is catatonic behavior?
A psychomotor disturbance
Immobility: remaining in fixed positions for a long time
Posturing: rigid/ bizarre posturing
Echolalia: Repeating words/phrases
Echopraxia: Mimicking other movements
