SCHIZOPHRENIC DISORDERS

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SCHIZOPHRENIC DISORDERS
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SCHIZOPHRENIC DISORDERS

• SEVERE DISORDER IN WHICH THERE ARE DISTURBANCES
  OF THOUGHTS, COMMUNICATIONS, AND EMOTIONS
  INCLUDING DELUSIONS AND HALLUCINATIONS.
• PSYCHOTIC
• OUT OF TOUCH WITH REALITY
• INSANITY
• LEGAL TERM FOR MENTALLY DISTURBED PEOPLE WHO ARE
  NOT CONSIDERED RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR CRIMINAL
  ACTION
• HALLUCINATIONS
• SENSORY EXPERIENCE IN THE ABSENCE OF EXTERNAL
  STIMULATION
• DELUSIONS
• FALSE BELIEFS ABOUT REALITY THAT HAVE NO BASIS IN
  FACT

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SCHIZOPHRENIC DISORDERS

• DELUSIONS
• PERSECUTION
• ANOTHER PERSON OR GROUP IS TRYING TO HARM THE
  INDIVIDUAL OR HIS LOVED ONES
• GRANDEUR
• SPECIFIC OR VAGUE BEING ABRAHAM LINCOLN, OR
  BELIEVING YOU HAVE A PREORDAINED IMPORTANCE IN
  HISTORY (DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR IN GENERAL INVOLVE
  AN EXAGGERATED VIEW OF ONES OWN IMPORTANCE)
• SOMATIC
• PREOCCUATION WITH ONES OWN BODY

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SCHIZOPHRENIC DISORDERS

• NIHILISM
• BELIEF THAT THE WORLD, OTHERS, AND/OR ONESELF
  IS NONEXISTENT
• REFERENCE
• BELIEF THAT THE BEHAVIORS OF OTHERS OR CERTAIN
  EVENTS HAVE BEEN TARGECTED SPECIFICALLY TOWARD
  ONESELF
• THOUGHT BROADCASTING
• NOTION THAT ONES THOUGHTS ARE BEING BROADCAST TO
  EVERYONE IN THE VICINITY
• THOUGHT INSERTION
• IDEA THAT THOUGHTS ARE BEING INSERTED INTO ONES
  MIND BY OUTSIDE FORCES

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SCHIZOPHRENIC DISORDERS

• INCOHERENCE
• SPEECH THAT IS INCOMPREHENSIBLE OR LACKING IN
  MEANING AND STRUCTURE, (BEST KNOWN), EXAMPLE
  THE SHEEP ARE ON THE ROOF BECAUSE TWELVE IS NEW
  JERSEY
• FLIGHT OF IDEAS
• SPEECH IS INTELLIGIBLE , FAST PACE AND RAPID
  ACCELERATION, OFTEN WITH ABRUPT CHANGE IN TOPIC
• LOOSENING OF ASSOCIATIONS
• ILLOGICAL, UNFOCUSED, OR VAGUE TRAIN OF THOUGHT.
  WHEN ASKED HOW YOU ARE FEELING, HEALTHY,
  WEALTHY, AND WISE.

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SCHIZOPHRENIC DISORDERS

• NEOLOGISMS
• INVENTION OF NEW WORDS OR DISTORTION OF EXISTING
  ONES OFTEN TO MATCH SOME SELF-PERCEIVED MEANING.
  WRETCHEDIVISM OF YOUR TETRAMATIC LIFESTYLE.
• CLANGING
• SOUNDS OF WORDS, RATHER THAN THEIR MEANING,
  DETERMINES THE CONTENT OF ONES SPEECH. THE
  NOTE IN THE TILL, BY THE GOAT EATING SWILL, SANK
  THE BOAT ON THE HILL (RESPONSE WHEN ASKED YOUR
  NAME)

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SCHIZOPHRENIS DISORDERS

• CIRCUMSTANTIALITY
• SPEECH FILLED WITH UNNECESSARY, TEDIOUS, AND
  INCONSEQUENTIAL DETAIL, LEADING TO RAMBLING
  DESCRIPTIONS OF EVENTS OR RESPONSES TO QUESTIONS.
• PERSEVERATION
• NOT CLANGING, BUT CLINGING TO THE SAME IDEA,
  WORD, PHRASE, OF SOUND REPEATEDLY.
• I MUST STOP WRITING, I MUST STOP WRITING, I
  MUST STOP WRITING..

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SCHIZOPHRENIC DISORDERS

• DISORGANIZED
• INCOHERENCE FLAT OR SILLY AFFECT FRAGMENTED,
  UNASSOCIATED DELUSIONS.
• CATATONIC
• PSYCHOMOTOR DISTURBANCE---STUPOR, RIGID POSING,
  BIZARRE POSTURING, PURPOSELESS EXCITED MOVEMENTS.
• PARANOID
• HIGHLY EVOLVED DELUSIONS OR HALLUCINATIONS OF
  PRSECUTION OR GRANDEUR
• UNDIFFERNTIATED
• PSYCHOTIC SCHIZOPHRENIC SYMPTOMS THAT DO NOT FIT
  ANY OTHER CATEGORY OR THAT FIT ALL THREE