What Are the Different Types of Schizophrenia?

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https://healthnews.com/health-conditions/schizophrenia/different-types-of-schizophrenia/

  • Paranoid schizophrenia. Characteristics of paranoid schizophrenia are frequent visual and auditory hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech, problems concentrating, and substantial behavioral impairment. This was the most diagnosed type of schizophrenia before 2013.

  • Catatonic schizophrenia. Catatonia, or a lack of movement and communication, plus frequent agitation and confusion, is the main qualifier for this type of schizophrenia. Unlike paranoid, catatonic schizophrenia is one of the rarest types.

  • Residual schizophrenia. This type is typically diagnosed when a person with schizophrenia no longer shows signs of delusions or hallucinations but still has psychomotor issues, disordered speech, and trouble expressing emotions, also known as the flat affect.

  • Disorganized schizophrenia. Also known as hebephrenic schizophrenia, this subtype is understood to include disorganized behaviors and nonsensical speech. However, it does not include delusions or hallucinations.

  • Undifferentiated schizophrenia. This diagnosis is for people with schizophrenia whose symptoms don’t fit neatly into any one subtype

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Lol, I remember when I was really psychotic last year,

I believed that my dx: psychosis not otherwise specified, (psychosis NOS),

was called that because secretly it was a special type of psychosis that gave me powers instead of illness. :smirk::smirk::smirk:

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I have psychosis NOS F29…
That’s my diagnosis

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What does F29 mean? Do you know…

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Classification, for example paranoid schizophrenia is F20
It simple doesn’t mean anything different bc we’re all fckd up

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Mine should fall under Residual, the only issues being apathy and blunted affect, both of bearable intensity.

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@Zoe, that’s more like this type

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True, except my doctor from the past told me I don’t have schizophrenia due to the dose of abilify I’m on, 5mg…

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I don’t know that diagnose has to do something with meds.

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Same I didn’t know either. Lol, it was news to me.

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