What are the symptoms of schizophrenia?

If schizophrenia patients are effectively controlled, they may do things that hurt themselves and others, and may show symptoms of loneliness, lack of initiative and enthusiasm, and emotional communication disorders.

1. Emotional disorders

The patient lacks emotional response to the things around him. In the early stage, it is a delicate emotional loss, such as caring and caring for relatives (emotional indifference). In severe cases, he is indifferent to major events involving his own interests, and has no corresponding emotional response to things that most people find annoying and painful (emotional indifference). They may also show emotions that are out of harmony with their surroundings, laugh for no reason, and it is difficult to communicate emotionally with the patient. The above symptoms are characteristic symptoms of schizophrenia.

2. Will and behavior disorder

The patients are lonely, withdrawn, lack initiative and enthusiasm, do nothing all day, live a lazy life, have no high-level desires (decline of will), have no interest in work, study and communication, have a significant decline in ability and impaired social function. Stupid, childish, and strange behavior may also occur.

3. Thought content disorder

The main manifestation is delusion. Delusion is a pathologically distorted belief that is inconsistent with objective facts, educational level, cultural background, etc., and may even be absurd and bizarre. However, the patient firmly believes in it and cannot be convinced or corrected through personal experience.

Delusion is one of the most common symptoms of schizophrenia. Various delusions may occur, and some patients have very prominent delusions. In the early stages of the disease, patients may be skeptical about certain obviously irrational ideas, but as the disease progresses, they become integrated with the pathological beliefs and cannot be recognized by themselves.