Negative Symptoms

Question 1

what are negative symptoms?

Answer 1

where people don’t display ‘normal’ behaviours - these symptoms are a lack of behaviours which are normally there

Question 2

negative symptoms include

Answer 2

• speech poverty
• lack of emotions
• avolition
• lack of ability to function normally

Question 3

speech poverty

Answer 3

a general lack of additional, unprompted content seen in normal speech.

Question 4

lack of emotions

Answer 4

a state of indifference, or the suppression of emotions such as concern, excitement, motivation, or passion

Question 5

avolition

Answer 5

the decrease in the motivation to initiate and perform self-directed purposeful activities.

Question 6

lack of ability to function normally

Answer 6

Behavior can include resistance to instructions, inappropriate or bizarre posture, a complete lack of response, or useless and excessive movement.