Question

Explain the positive symptoms of schizophrenia.

1. Hallucinations
2. Delusions
3. Disorganized speech
4. Incongruent affect

Explain any two positive symptoms of schizophrenia.

Explain the following question in 25 to 30 words:

Explain any two positive symptoms of Schizophrenia.

Answer the following question in 80 to 100 words with the help of the given points:

Explain the positive symptoms of schizophrenia.

Points:

1. Hallucinations
2. Disorganized speech
3. Disorganised behaviour
4. Incongruent affect

Answer 1

The positive symptoms of schizophrenia: These behaviours are an excess of an addition to the normal thoughts or behaviours of an individual. It includes:

1. Hallucinations: Hallucinations refer to false perceptions in the absence of stimulus. It means the individual experiences something even when there is nothing present. For example, even if there is pin drop silence and yet the individual can hear someone talking to him/her, then it is auditory hallucination. Similarly there may be visual, tactile (related to touch), olfactory (related to smell), gustatory (related to taste) or may be related to internal sensations of the body.
2. Delusions: Delusion occurs when an individual has a belief which is false but the individual is not ready to change it in spite of clear evidence contrary to it. For example, the belief that ‘somebody is conspiring to kill me’ even when there is no one who is making such plans.
3. Disorganised speech and loosening of association: The individual’s talk is unrelated to each other, like he/she may use useless word or may jump from one point to another which has no connection to the first.
4. Disorganised behaviour (Bizarre movements): The individual behaves in very strange manner like doing the same act for hours together, screaming without reason, running here and there without any purpose, attacking or biting someone, undressing clothes in public places, etc.
5. Incongruent affect: Here the emotions expressed by the individual does not match with the situations. For example, the individual cries in happy occasions and laughs in sad occasions.

Answer 2

Positive Symptoms of Schizophrenia include:

1. Delusions: A delusion is a false belief that is firmly maintained for inadequate grounds. These lack reality and are irrational. For example, persons who have the delusion of persecution think they are being watched or plotted against.
2. Hallucinations: These are perceptions that arise in the absence of external stimuli. Auditory hallucinations might manifest as hearing voices or conversations.