Basics of Schizophrenia

1. The most common symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia are:

• One begins to hear things that only they can hear.
• One believes that people are trying to hurt them when they're not.
• One has verbal conflicts.
• One speaks to others patronizingly.
• One begins to get suicidal thoughts or actions.
• One becomes anxious, aloof, violent, or angry.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/paranoid-schizophrenia/DS00862/DSECTION=symptoms

2. Symptoms for disorganized paranoid schizophrenia are:

• Being active but with reason and unproductively.
• Emotional responses can be odd or inappropriate.
• One has beliefs that are false.
• One can't respond pleasurably.
• One smiles and grimaces at the wrong times.
• One lack emotion and is not motivated.
• Has auditory and visual hallucinations.
• Behaves in a silly manner.

http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/schizophrenia-disorganized-type/overview.html

3. Symptoms of catatonic schizophrenia include:

• One having delusions and hallucinations.
• One is incoherent or has frequent derailment, thus disorganized speech.
• Behavior is catatonic or disorganized.
• 'Negative' symptons being flattening, alogia, or avolition.

http://counsellingresource.com/distress/schizophrenia/dsm/schizophrenia.html

4. Positive schizophrenia symptoms:

• Hallucinations
• Delusions
• Racing thoughts.

5. Negative schizophrenia symptoms:

• Apathy
• Emotionless
• Poor or no socialization

http://www.schizophrenia.com/diag.php

6. Hallucinations vs. Delusions
 Hallucinations are were delusions come from the sense (visual and auditory) where one sees or hear things that aren't there
Delusions consist of beliefs that the person thinks are true even if they are denied through fact. It has to do with the mental responses, or emotional, instead of relying on the sense ( sense of grandeur or persecution).

http://www.wisegeek.com/are-delusions-and-hallucinations-different.htm

7. Cognitive schizophrenia symptoms:

• Thoughts that get you no where, circuitous and unending.
• Neologisms- making up new words.
• Incoherency and forming unrelated words together.
• Thoughts and speech are loose (forgetful).
• Has no goals or direction.

http://www.schizophrenia.com/earlysigns.htm

8. Avolition symptoms:

• Has no desires, motivation, or persistence.
• Failure to begin or finish goals.

www.lumrix.com/medical/symptoms/avolition.html

9. Catatonic symptoms:

•   Having a rigid and or motionless body.
• Repetitive behavior and movements
• Experiences catalepsy and negativism

 http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/c/catatonia/symptoms.htm 

10. Delusion of Grandeur 
  Someone way in over their head, meaning that they believe the amount of power they wield is incomparable thus making them really important.


http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-delusions-of-grandeur.htm

11. Delusion of Reference
  One believes that events that have nothing to do with them are directly related to them as if to convey to a message.

http://bipolar.about.com/od/glossaryd/g/gl_delusofrefer.htm

12. Somatic Delusions
When one has false beliefs about the image or function of their body.

http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/somatic+delusion