1. Schizophrenia

2. How Prevalent?
About 1 in every 100 people are diagnosed with schizophrenia.

3. Symptoms of Schizophrenia
Disorganized thinking.
Disturbed Perceptions
Inappropriate Emotions and Actions

4. Disorganized Thinking
The thinking of a person with Schizophrenia is fragmented and bizarre and distorted with false beliefs.
Disorganized thinking comes from a breakdown in selective attention.- they cannot filter out information.

5. Delusions (false beliefs)
Delusions of Persecution
Delusions of Grandeur

6. Disturbed Perceptions
hallucinations- sensory experiences without sensory stimulation.

7. Inappropriate Emotions and Actions
Laugh at inappropriate times.
Flat Effect
Senseless, compulsive acts.
Catatonia- motionless Waxy Flexibility

8. Types of Schizophrenia

9. Paranoid Schizophrenia
preoccupation with delusions or hallucinations.
Somebody is out to get me!!!!

10. Disorganized Schizophrenia
disorganized speech or behavior, or flat or inappropriate emotion.

11. Catatonic Schizophrenia
parrot like repeating of another’s speech and movements
Characteristics being unable to control your muscles and being unaware of what is around you.

12. Undifferentiated Schizophrenia
Many and varied Symptoms.
Patient meets many of the symptoms but does not fit directly into one of the other categories of schizophrenia.