| While the cause of schizophrenia is not clear the | | | | easiest to see. The thought process being |
| fact that it is linked to the brain is. It is a physical | | | | disorganized is another of this disease symptoms. |
| disorder and not a psychiatric disorder. It has an | | | | They will not be able to organize their thoughts |
| affect on the personality and the mind of the | | | | and they will be hard to understand when they |
| person that is affected by it. Treatment is aimed | | | | talk to you. Making up words that only you |
| at the management of symptoms and not | | | | understand and feeling like your thoughts were |
| actually curing the disorder. | | | | removed from your head are symptoms of |
| What are the schizophrenia symptoms? There | | | | schizophrenia as well. |
| are a number of different types of schizophrenia | | | | Hallucinations and delusions can cause someone to |
| and each has its own set of symptoms. There is | | | | be fearful. They may imagine elaborate |
| the kind of disease that comes with paranoia and | | | | conspiracies against them that involve people they |
| delusions. There is a change in the mental skills of | | | | don't know and those they once trusted as well. |
| a person with schizophrenia as well. Those that | | | | Clumsiness, unplanned movement, inappropriate |
| suffer from this disease may hear voices as well | | | | mannerisms and repeating movements are all |
| and be unable to organize and plan events. | | | | schizophrenia symptoms that fall under |
| Different people will feel different affects with | | | | movement disorders. The least common of these |
| schizophrenia and there are various categories to | | | | symptoms is catatonia. |
| the symptoms as well. The categories of this | | | | These symptoms come together to complete |
| disease symptoms fall into negative, positive, and | | | | the picture of this disease symptoms since no |
| cognitive ones. | | | | single one can be used to show that someone is |
| The positive schizophrenia symptoms are those | | | | suffering from schizophrenia. |
| that should not be present. The illness itself | | | | Then there are schizophrenia symptoms that fall |
| causes them and they are in no way positive. | | | | under negative ones. These develop when the |
| They are often associated with losing touch with | | | | person suffering from this disease no longer has |
| reality. | | | | the ability to have a normal emotional reaction. |
| The positive symptoms include hallucinations and | | | | They are negative because they have been |
| delusions. Anything that you feel, see that is not | | | | taken away for some reason. |
| there, hearing or smell that is not there is a | | | | There is an inability to have the feelings that are |
| hallucination. Hearing voices is one of the this | | | | considered normal and the emotions are flat. |
| disease symptoms that occurs the most often. | | | | They do not find pleasure in the things that they |
| The voices can be criticizing and threatening at | | | | used to. Tasks are hard to begin and just as hard |
| times; this can be scary to those experiencing it. | | | | to complete for those experiencing these |
| Delusions are another common schizophrenia | | | | symptoms. One of the schizophrenia symptoms |
| symptom. They will cause a person to believe | | | | has to do with not having as much interaction as |
| things they would know are not true otherwise. | | | | they once had with others. |
| Suddenly they will come to think that the entire | | | | Then there are the cognitive symptoms. These |
| world is against them and that others are reading | | | | disease symptoms will appear as trouble with the |
| their minds in their efforts to gain information | | | | attention span, memory will not be as good and |
| from them. Thinking that others are monitoring | | | | they will have a hard time with plans and |
| your activity and pose a threat to you; you might | | | | organizational skills. The cognitive symptoms are |
| even start to believe that you have the ability to | | | | harder to see as a part of schizophrenia although |
| control others' thoughts. | | | | they will be upsetting. |
| The schizophrenia symptoms of delusions and | | | | Knowing the schizophrenia symptoms will help to |
| hallucination can socially and become fearful of | | | | identify the illness and make sure that you can |
| social situations. The positive symptoms are the | | | | put them all together. |