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1. For this weeks discussion we are asked the question: Distinguish between the positive and negative symptoms associated with a diagnosis of Schizophrenia. What symptoms are key in making the distinction among the diagnoses of Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, and Mood Disorder with Psychotic Features?
Schizophrenia can be a tricky diagnosis. It has positive and negative symptoms that present. Some symptoms that you may see someone who is experiencing true schizophrenia is someone who experiencing hallucinations. This person may see, hear, smell, or taste things that don’t exist. The only place they exist is in their mind. Another symptom is delusion. Delusion can be begin suddenly or may develop over weeks to months. This is when someone is convince they are being held with complete conviction, even though it’s based on a mistaken, strange or unrealistic view. It may affect the way the person behaves. Delusions can begin suddenly or may develop over weeks or months. Some other positive symptoms may be having trouble tracking their thoughts or conversations to a person behavior becoming disorganized and unpredictable. Typically, a schizophrenic person will describe the thoughts in their head as being controlled by someone else, thought that someone else planted.
Some negative symptoms can mimic signs of depression. This may include withdrawal or isolation, being emotionally flat or having a hard time sustaining relationships. Other symptoms could mimic losing interest and motivation in life and activities, including relationships and sex, lack of concentration, not wanting to leave the house, and changes in sleeping patterns and being less likely to initiate conversations and feeling uncomfortable with people, or feeling there’s nothing to say. The negative symptoms of schizophrenia can often lead to relationship problems with friends and family as they can sometimes be mistaken for deliberate laziness or rudeness.
-Danielle
NHS. (n.d.). NHS choices. Retrieved March 22, 2023, from https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/schizophrenia/symptoms/
2. Schizophrenia has many positive and negative symptoms. I grew up thinking schizophrenia was just a disorder of someone who saw things that were not there and was just a disorder about hallucinations. A positive symptom is a symptom that affects the person’s behaviors, and the way they think. These types of symptoms are not usually known in people without schizophrenia. Negative symptoms take away, while positive symptoms add. Some of the positive symptoms of schizophrenia are delusions, hallucinations, changes in behavior, incoherence, and disorganized speech. Some of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia are being unempathetic, lack of joy in life, lack of interest in finished or starting activities. Affective deficits, avolition deficits, communicative deficits, and relational deficits are all defining features of schizophrenia (Preda, 2014).
Bipolar, and depressive are both types of schizoaffective disorder. Schizoaffective disorder is like schizophrenia, as someone can hallucinate and have delusions, but someone will also have episodes of depression and mania. The prominent difference between schizoaffective disorder, and schizophrenia is that schizoaffective disorder requires a mood disorder on top of the schizophrenic symptoms. Schizoaffective disorder is treated with antipsychotics and antidepressants. The treatments for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are similar, as antipsychotic medications are helpful at treating schizophrenia, while mood stabilizers plus antipsychotics are used to help treat bipolar disorder. Psychotherapy can help treat both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder as well. Someone with bipolar mood disorder may go from high to low, spontaneously, affecting their daily activities (Ginta, 2016).
Question to the class:
What are the factors that contribute to schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder?
Ginta, D. (2016, April 25). Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia: What Are the Differences? Healthline; Healthline Media. https://www.healthline.com/health/bipolar-disorder/bipolar-vs-schizophrenia#bipolar-disorder-vs-schizophrenia
Ginta, D. (2016, April 25). Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia: What Are the Differences? Healthline; Healthline Media. https://www.healthline.com/health/bipolar-disorder/bipolar-vs-schizophrenia#bipolar-disorder-vs-schizophrenia
Kelsie Vittitow
3. Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness that can impact a person in a variety of ways, including how they think, how they feel, and how they act. It is distinguished by a wide variety of symptoms, including positive and negative manifestations. Positive symptoms are those that represent an excess or distortion of normal functions, such as hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech, and disorganized behavior. Positive symptoms can be indicative of a variety of mental health conditions. Negative symptoms are those that represent a decline or lack of normal functions, such as lessened emotional expression, reduction in speech, social retreat, and lack of motivation. These symptoms can be caused by several conditions, including depression, anxiety, and substance abuse. There are several conditions, such as schizoaffective disorder and mood disorder with psychotic features, those exhibit symptoms that are comparable to those of schizophrenia. It is essential to differentiate between these conditions to ensure that people with mental health issues are provided with the most appropriate treatment for their illness.
Schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and mood disorder with psychotic features can be differentiated from one another based on whether mood symptoms are present. This is the most important distinction. People who suffer from schizophrenia typically do not experience any mood symptoms or only experience mild mood symptoms, however, those who suffer from schizoaffective disorder and mood disorder with psychotic features usually experience more severe mood symptoms, such as depression or mania. People who have Mood Conditions with Psychotic Features only experience psychotic symptoms in the context of their mood disorder, but people who have schizoaffective disorder also have mood symptoms as well as psychotic symptoms. People who have schizophrenia, as opposed to those who have a schizoaffective disorder or mood disorder with psychotic features, typically have more chronic psychotic symptoms than those who have those other conditions. Schizophrenia is a condition that lasts for a long period of time, but schizoaffective disorder and mood disorder with psychotic features often occur in episodes.
-Stephanie
Resources:
Difference Between Positive and Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia | HealthyPlace. (n.d.). Www.healthyplace.com. https://www.healthyplace.com/thought-disorders/schizophrenia-symptoms/difference-between-positive-and-negative-symptoms-of-schizophrenia#:~:text=Schizophrenia%20positive%20symptoms%20create%20distortions%20and%20new%20ways
D’Arrigo, T. (2020, December 13). Schizophrenia Symptoms. WebMD; WebMD. https://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/schizophrenia-symptoms