What are the negative symptoms of schizophrenia?
Negative symptoms of schizophrenia are characterized by a lack of behavior that would be expected from a typical person. Negative symptoms of schizophrenia include lack of speech, low motivation, little interest in social behavior and inability to feel pleasure or enjoy things. The term negative symptoms reflect these missing typical behavior and distinguish them from "positive" symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations and disturbed thinking. Negative symptoms are factors in diagnosis of schizophrenia in Western medicine.
Due to their wide basic definition, there are many possible negative symptoms of schizophrenia. Similar symptoms are sometimes grouped and groups differ according to psychiatric opinion. However, groups are generally very similar and aim to categorize social interaction disorders and other negative symptoms.
Group of negative symptoms may include apathy, a state called Avolithing in Psychiatry, it is characterized by loss of motivation to do things that were previously pleasant notBo meaningful. ALOGIA is marked by a significant reduction in speech, which reduces self -expression and makes conversation or lacking meaningful content. Flugged emotional reactions are characterized by reduced sensitivity or indifference to events that would usually affect human emotions. Sometimes individuals with schizophrenia withdraw from social contact and social interactions or do not perform poorly in a typical social environment, all of which are examples of asocial behavior. Other groups could include the loss of the ability to feel pleasure or other specific types of asocial behavior.
Negative symptoms of schizophrenia are persistent states. The American Psychiatric Association says it must take at least a month to become a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Sometimes it seems that they develop slowly as if a family member notices that another member is becoming more and more pulled down until it eventually interferes with work or other or other ornation. European and American psychiatric instructions recognize various, but similar subcategories of schizophrenia, with various negative symptoms of schizophrenia acting as criteria in their diagnoses.
Negative symptoms can sometimes be explained and better treated if it stems from another state that is not schizophrenic in nature. Negative symptoms may vary in intensity, and psychiatrists compare them to the usual past behavior of a person to make a diagnosis. Some antipsychotic drugs may have side effects that create negative symptoms such as lethargy, and this may be a factor in choosing the best drugs. Schizophrenia diagnoses are not administered if negative symptoms are the result of drug abuse or mood disorders such as bipolar disorder or depression.