What are some signs of schizophrenia?
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* Characteristic symptoms: Two or more of the following, each present for a significant portion of time during a one-month period (or less, if successfully treated)
o delusions
o hallucinations
o disorganized speech (e.g., frequent derailment or incoherence; speaking in abstracts). See thought disorder.
o grossly disorganized behavior (e.g. dressing inappropriately, crying frequently) or catatonic behavior
o negative symptoms, i.e., affective flattening (lack or decline in emotional response), alogia (lack or decline in speech), or avolition (lack or decline in motivation).
Note: Only one of these symptoms is required if delusions are bizarre or hallucinations consist of hearing one voice participating in a running commentary of the patient's actions or of hearing two or more voices conversing with each other.
* Social/occupational dysfunction: For a significant portion of the time since the onset of the disturbance, one or more major areas of functioning such as work, interpersonal relations, or self-care, are markedly below the level achieved prior to the onset.
* Duration: Continuous signs of the disturbance persist for at least six months. This six-month period must include at least one month of symptoms (or less, if successfully treated).
Obsessive behaviour,E.g washing continually Hearing voices, Seeing things that arent there, feelings of being watched, Paranoia,Weight Loss to name a few
Bizzare behavior. Complaints of things which don't exist {The Dang Monkey's are pulling me into the hole again.} Unaccepting of reality. Violent outbursts without provocation. Failure to assess the environment and change actions which might lead to harm.
"A person experiencing schizophrenia may demonstrate symptoms such as disorganized thinking, auditory hallucinations, and delusions. In severe cases, the person may be largely mute, remain motionless in bizarre postures, or exhibit purposeless agitation; these are signs of catatonia. The current classification of psychoses holds that symptoms need to have been present for at least one month in a period of at least six months of disturbed functioning."
Wikipedia article on schizophrenia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/schizophren...
And here is a quiz to see if you could possibly be schizophrenic:
http://psychcentral.com/quizzes/schizoph...
Hang on, I'll ask my other half.
I wanted to know this too as i have someone close to me who has schizophrenia.
The symptoms I've noticed gradually have been talking to someone who isn't actually there, but inside their head, where there exists an imaginary world. People think certain things are there or have happened when they haven't and aren't. Also, what I would describe as weird behaviour.
Hallucinations are the most common one visual and also hearing voices
The most common symptoms of schizophrenia include (of which at least 2 must be present for a diagnosis):
1. Delusions
2. Hallucinations
3. Disorganized Speech
4. Grossly Disorganized or Catatonic Behavior
5. Negative Symptoms (i.e. affective flattening, alogia, or incoherence).
Additionally they must be present for at least a one month period.
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