Symptoms and classification of schizophrenia

summary

Schizophrenia is a group of severe psychosis with unclear etiology, which usually starts slowly or subacute in young adults. These syndromes have different symptoms, which involve various obstacles such as perception, thinking, emotion and behavior, as well as uncoordinated mental activities. Generally, patients have clear consciousness and normal intelligence, But some patients in the process of disease will appear cognitive function damage, the course of disease is generally prolonged, repeated attacks, aggravation or deterioration, symptoms and classification of schizophrenia, I'll tell you about it.

Symptoms and classification of schizophrenia

The three main characteristic symptoms of schizophrenia are thought disorder, thought disorder, and lack of coherence and logic in association process. The characteristics of this disease are that the patient's thought association is loose or split under the condition of clear consciousness, and lack of concreteness and reality. The most typical manifestation is broken thinking, which lives in the patient's words or written sentences, Although there is no abnormality in the grammatical structure, there is a lack of connection between concepts or contexts in the sense of content, so it loses the central idea and practical significance, showing the concept confusion and strange logical thinking.

Affective disorder, which is mainly characterized by sluggish and indifferent emotion, is an important feature of schizophrenic symptoms. It involves more detailed emotions at first, such as caring for colleagues and friends, caring for relatives, and patients' emotional response to surrounding things becomes sluggish and indifferent, The demand for life and study has declined, and so have the interests and hobbies.

This kind of patient's activity reduces, lacks the initiative behavior, the passive withdrawal, lacks the due request to the social work and the study, does not take the initiative to communicate with others, lacks the enthusiasm and the initiative to the study life and the labor, the behavior is lazy, does not attend class for no reason does not go to work, serious time patient behavior is extremely passive, all day long lies in bed or stays, does nothing.

matters needing attention

For patients with schizophrenia, antipsychotic drugs should be used for treatment, so drug treatment should be systematic and standardized, emphasizing early enough treatment, paying attention to the principle of single drug use and individualized drug use, and different drugs should be used for different symptoms.