I hear a lot about it on posts but not really sure what the difference is or what everyone is talking about. Can anyone tell me?
I can’t explain that well from personal experiences what the Negative Symptoms are but positive ones are things that healthy people do not have, things that are added. Negative Symptoms are things that healthy people have but we are lacking. Like motivation and the ability to experience pleasure from daily activities.
I don’t know if anyone experiences all of the Negative Symptoms but most people have a few. The only way you can be easily and correctly be diagnosed with SZ is if you have the positive symptoms, hallucinations and the delusion.
I do not have hallucinations or delusions, I can tap into what my old delusions were but at the present moment I am not experiencing anything.
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Always liked this description.
Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder characterized by retreat from reality (psychosis), hallucinations, delusions, abnormal thought processes and disrupted social functioning. Schizophrenia subtypes include
• Catatonic schizophrenia (characterized by physical symptoms such as immobility, abnormal postures and frenzied movement)
• Paranoid schizophrenia (characterized by prominent delusions and hallucinations)
• Disorganized [hebephrenic] schizophrenia (characterized by abnormal emotional response, disrupted speech and thought processes)
• Undifferentiated schizophrenia (characterized by a mixture of symptoms from all groups)
Symptoms of schizophrenia fall into two major categories
• Positive symptoms (e.g. hallucinations, delusions, agitation)
• Negative symptoms (e.g. social withdrawal, cognitive decline, apathy, lack of motivation)
I do remember the front site has a good description also. Just no idea where to look atm.
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