Assignment 5.1 Psychosis, Schizophrenia

Assignment 5.1Positive and Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia Physical and lab tests only eliminate other conditions such as metabolic disorders, and seizure disorders as these disorders have similar symptoms as schizophrenia. The disorder has positive and negative symptoms.Positive symptomsPositive symptoms come with psychotic behavior not common in healthy people. This means the victims become unfamiliar with some aspects of reality. While some victims experience on and off symptoms, others experience full-time symptoms whose severity differs from time to time. These symptoms include hallucinations, delusions, thought disorders, and movement disorders. Hallucinations involve experiences in the sensory and happen without stimulus. In addition, the symptoms can occur in any sense such as hearing, vision, touch, smell, touch, or taste. In schizophrenia, auditory hallucinations appear most common as the victims hear internal and external voices, which make the victims react differently as they deal with what the voices say. Delusions are also common, and involve false beliefs that oppose the victim’s culture. When having delusions, the victims can believe themselves as other people like famous historical figures. Delusions also have them believe other people will harm them with ways such as harassing, poisoning, cheating, or spying against them. Thought disorders are also