NEGATIVE SYMPTOMS: TYPE 2 Flashcards
What are Negative Symptoms?
- Negative Symptoms (also known as Type 2) take away from normal thought patterns and experiences
- It involves the displaying of behaviours concerning disruption of normal emotions and actions
- These occur in chronic, longer-lasting episodes
- It is resistant to medication
- Negative Symptoms contribute mostly to sufferers being unable to function effectively in society. These can often appear several years before an individual experiences their first acute schizophrenic episode
- These initial negative symptoms are often referred to as the Prodromal Period of Schizophrenia
What are some symptoms that take place during the Prodromal Period?
Symptoms during the Prodromal Period usually appear gradually and slowly get worse. They include:
1. Becoming more socially withdrawn
2. Showing an increasing lack of care about appearance and personal hygiene
What is Alogia?
Reduced fluency of speech or poverty of speech. Apart from a reduction in the total amount of speech produced, people with Schizophrenia lack meaning
What is Avolition or Apathy?
- When people seem to be indifferent to or unconcerned with the goings on in their surroundings.
- They show neither the will nor desire to take part in activities
- There is a distinct lack of goal-directed behaviour and loss of interest in normal goals
What is Anhedonia?
Where an individual does not react appropriately to pleasurable experiences
What is Cataleptic Stupor?
Reduced Motor activity in which schizophrenics can stand motionless like a statue in bizarre postures
At the end of the spectrum, the person with schizophrenia may make fast, repetitive and useless movements
What is Echolalia?
Repetitive echoing of words spoken by others or the imitation of the mannerisms of other people
What is Echopraxia?
This is where people with Schizophrenia mimic the movements of others around them
What is Disorganised speech?
Inappropriate speech, speech patterns are very monotonous and do not rise and fall as normal speech patterns do
What is Flattened affect or Flattened emotions?
Reduction in range and intensity of emotions. This includes:
1. Less eye contact
2. Lifeless eyes
3. Immobile face
4. Speech is toneless
5. Staring vacantly
What is Inappropriate affect?
Silliness and laughter which are out of context such as laughing after finding out that someone has died
