If the symptoms of psychosis last longer than 3 months, one has schizophrenia. The two main features of schizophrenia are hallucinations<\/strong> \u2013 seeing objects, people, things that are not actually there in reality<\/p>\n delusions<\/strong> \u2013 which are unrealistic beliefs such as believing one is a star of a TV show, believing that they are the only ones alive, believing that they are God etc.<\/p>\n There are two types of schizophrenia, passive<\/em> and active<\/em> schizophrenia.<\/p>\n Passive<\/em> schizophrenia is characterized by one being extremely socially withdrawn, isolated, one may not speak for days or months. They may also rock back and fourth and have uncontrollable movement or they may remain in the same position even uncomfortable ones for days at a time. Not moving, even when one tries to move them. This phenomena is called: catatonia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Active<\/em> schizophrenia is the one that is more publicized. Active schizophrenia is characterized by: loud, strange\/eccentric behaviour, sometimes aggressive such as shouting at others on the street, talking to themselves, having conversations with inanimate objects. It also includes, speaking chants, repeating words or feeling as if one cannot stop talking. When they talk they have a tendency to not make logical sense. They do not have linear trains of thought. They may go off on tangents, talk and start to rhyme words or make loose associations. When one is talking and saying a bunch of words in a hyper state it is called a word salad<\/strong>. It is a jumble of words that do not make rational sense or seem to have a clear point. Both passive and active people with schizophrenia experience hallucinations and delusions however.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n (Please note that these\u00a0are some examples but do not cover every example\/type in depth)<\/p>\n Disorganized\/irrational and\/or delusional thinking<\/strong><\/p>\n Distorted perceptions<\/strong><\/p>\n Inappropriate emotions and actions<\/strong><\/p>\n Deterioration in adaptive behavior<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n What is schizophrenia? If the symptoms of psychosis last longer than 3 months, one has schizophrenia. The two main features of schizophrenia are hallucinations \u2013 seeing objects, people, things… Continue Reading Schizophrenia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[68],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/community\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/community\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/community\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/community\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/community\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/community\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/community\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/community\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/community\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/community\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What are the four common symptoms of schizophrenia?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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