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Classification - Coggle Diagram
Classification
What is it?
IT is a mental illness that usually occurs in late adolescence or early adulthood, but it can occur at any time in life.
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Affects a person’s langauge, through, perception and even their sense of self.
Believe things that cannot be true and hear voices and see things that are not there … so when there are no sensory timelines to create them.
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Negative symptoms
Schizophrenia can cause ‘negative symptoms’ which cause a decline in functioning. Negative symptoms appear to reflect a loss of normal function.
LOSING BEHAVIOUR
For example…
Sufferers may not be able to work at a job that requires the same level of skill or concentration as the job they held before they became ill, or they may lose all ability to withstand the stress of working.
Speech poverty
It is the inability to speak properly, characterised by lack of ability to produce fluent words. THis is through it reflect slowing or blocked through. It can manifest itself as short and empty relies to questions.
AVolition
It is the reduction, difficulty or inability to start and continue with Goal-directed behaviour. It is often mistaken for apparent disinterest.
For example
No longer being interested in going out and meeting with friends, no longer being interested in activities that the person used to show enthusiasm for.
Affective flattening
Reduction in range / intensity of emotional expression - facial recognition, voice tone, eye contact, body language.
Less non-verbal communication that gives extra information that is not explicitly contained in a sentence (e.g. hand movements when speaking, deficit in prosody (intonation, tempo, loudness and pausing))
Anhedonia
Less of interest / pleasure in all or almost all activities, or a lack of reactivity to normally pleasurable stimuli.
Pervasive (all-embracing) or confined to certain aspects of experience
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Positive symptoms
- These are symptoms that are not usually present in a normal person.
- Positive symptoms reflect an excess or distortion of normal functioning.
- ADDING WERID BEHAVIOURS
Delusion
These are false beliefs that are firmly held despite being completely illogical, or for which there is no evidence.
There are three types:
Delusions of persecution
The beliefs that other want to harm, threaten or manipulate you. They may believe that they are being spied on, that nasty rumours are being spread or even people are plotting to kill them.
Delusion of grandeur
This is the idea that you are an important individuals even god-;like and have powers. One of the most frequent types of decisions is the belief that you are Jesus.
Delusions of control
Individuals may believe that they are under the control of an alien force that has invaded their mind and/or body. This may be interpreted, as spirits or an implanted radio.
Hallucination
- It involves disturbances in perception.
- They are false perceptions that have no basis in reality.
- The most common ones are auditory ones but can include other senses,
They appear the most as a single person talking.
- Often they instruct them to do something harmful to themselves or others.
Disorganised speech
- Result of abnormal thought processes.
- Individual has problems organising their thoughts and this shows up in
their speech.
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Age & gender
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Overall no gender difference,
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DSM
In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual DSM it is classified as a psychosis, as the sufferer has no concept of reality. Essentially, the illness is due to a breakdown of the patient’s personality.