POSITIVE SYMPTOMS: TYPE 1 Flashcards
What are Positive Symptoms?
- Positive Symptoms (also known as Type 1) are an ADDITION to normal thought patterns and experiences
- They involve the displaying of behaviours concerning a loss of touch with reality
- They generally occur in acute, short episodes with more normal periods in between
- They respond well to medication
What are Hallucinations?
Bizarre, unreal perceptions of the environment
What are the 4 types of Hallucinations?
- Auditory Hallucinations
- Visual Hallucinations
- Olfactory Hallucinations
- Tactile Hallucinations
What are Auditory Hallucinations?
Hearing voices that other people cant hear
What are Visual Hallucinations?
Seeing lights, objects or faces that other people cannot see
What are Olfactory Hallucinations?
Smelling things that other people cannot smell
What are Tactile Hallucinations?
A feeling that bugs are crawling on or under the skin or something touching the skin. Formication is the name for a sensation that resembles small insects, such as spiders crawling on or under the skin
What are delusions?
Bizarre beliefs that seem real to the Schizophrenic, but that are not real
What are the 3 types of delusions?
- Delusions of Persecution OR Paranoid Delusions
- Delusions of Grandeur
- Delusions of Reference
What are Delusions of Persecution OR Paranoid Delusions?
Beliefs that people are plotting against them, that they are being spied upon, talked about by strangers or deliberately victimised
What are Delusions of Grandeur?
Beliefs that they are someone grand or famous or that they have special magical powers
What are Delusions of Reference?
Beliefs that events in the environment appear to be directly related to them
What is Thought Disorder?
- This is sometimes described as ‘Derailment’ or ‘Knight’s move thinking’
- The persons thoughts and discourse seem to jump from one topic to another for no apparent reason
- They show no logical sense of discussion
- The patients speech might be muddled and proved very hard to follow
- Their speech may also be so incoherent that it sounds like complete gibberish - something that is often referred to as ‘Word Salad’
What is Thought Insertion?
Beliefs that the thoughts in their head aren’t their own and have been placed there by a third part
