Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by personality change, creating a distortion of reality and affects thoughts and emotions. The symptoms generated by schizophrenia can be divided in two.
Positive symptoms: Those features that occur only in people with this disorder and not seen in people who are healthy.
- They have delusions and the principal is the delirium of persecution.
- Presents hallucinations such as hearing voices.
- It can cause disruption of perception, such as seeing bright colors.
- The thought is altered and causes no consistency when it comes.
- There may be a strange behavior because you do things that are outside the “norms of behavior.”
- Also presented insomnia, sweating, palpitations, anxiety, aggression and excessive stress.
Negative symptoms: Are those behaviors that affect the standard of living of people with schizophrenia and healthy people can do.
- There is a social isolation, poor motivation you have.
- Occurs apathy and lack of energy to do certain things or participate in various activities, do not want to go to work or school, do not want to clean or do hobbies that used to do.
- You feel a physical and mental exhaustion.
- There is a decrease emotional, so you can not show their feelings in various situations.
- The cause concentration problems are easily distracted or not pay attention for long.
- You can not sustain the look and when he speaks there is a strange language and poor, do not know answer, mixing ideas and takes to speak.