CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 41: Neologism, Twin, Environmental Factor
11 Dec 2018
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Symptoms can either stay dormant or chronic or one-time. Varies depends on age (old people can be diagnosed with alzheimer"s, young people will likely to have schizophrenia) Positive: shown (abnormal behavior, thinking, delusions, hallucinations) It is more ideal to have positive symptoms, which can be fixed. Negative: lack of something that is supposed to be there (emotional expression, motivation, normal speech) I have special power (grandiose: paranoia (someone"s out to get me, auditory or visual. Speech: language disturbances: make up words (neologism) Emotions / affect: what"s your emotions rn: flat: no emotions (absent) Behavior: comes from delusions, act on delusions (i must cover window with tin foil to cover signal from government) Paranoid: delusions of persecution and grandeur, they"re out to get me , i"m a secret agent for god . Dec 10, 18: confused, can"t take care of themselves, severe deterioration of adaptive behavior, usually end up in the street.
