Symptoms and diagnostics part 1
Schizophrenia is often characterized by intensive cognition and emotional tests by a psychiatrist. It has an impact on the humanistic impute such as language, affection, perception, thought and sense of oneself. But symptoms can vary widely in severity, can come and go or be persistent. For those who experience symptoms that are mild can a first sign be withdrawal. In symptoms surrounding Schizophrenia it usually falls into one or more categories. Positive symptoms are those disturbing the normal functions like delusions, hallucinations and disorganized thoughts and behaviours. Negative symptoms are those that decreases your normal function often poor eye contact, little or no emotional response, less talking, reduced motivation and decreased pleasure, lack in social relationships and activities. Cognition impairment includes having a hard time concentration and problem solving. Emotional symptoms, like deeply depressed or inappropriate behaviours. To diagnosing Schizophrenia involves observing a persons actions and way of thinking, According to DSM-IV the requirements for diagnosing schizophrenia, no symptom alone can diagnose a patient. Two or more positive symptoms or signs has do be shown over a period of a month.
In diagnosing a patient you look for delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, catatonic behaviour and negative/positive symptoms of Schizophrenia. Delusions could be paranoid delusions (someone is out to get you), delusions of reference when things in their surroundings are communicating with them like the TV or radio is talking or sending messages to you, somatic delusions witch is when the person thinks he has a physical illness or that something is in your body, when its not, delusions of grandeur could be that a patient beliefs that he has special powers. Hallucinations for schizophrenia patients could be visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory or gustatory. Disorganized speech,