This document discusses the symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia, a subtype of schizophrenia. It notes that symptoms may include delusions of persecution or reference, auditory hallucinations like threatening voices, and smells or tastes that are not real. A diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia requires satisfying the general schizophrenia criteria as well as prominent hallucinations and/or delusions, with relatively minor disturbances in other areas like affect, volition, speech, or catatonia. Common delusions include persecutory or grandiose beliefs.

1.  Submitted To:
 Miss Amara
 Submitted By: Roll No.
 Bilal Mahmood 22
 Topic: Paranoid schizophreina
 Class: Bsc-3rd
 Submitted Date:
 19 / 03 / 2015

2. What are the symptoms of schizophrenia?

3. Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that
generally appears in late adolescence or early
adulthood - however, it can emerge at any time
in life. It is one of many brain diseases that
may include delusions, loss of personality (flat
affect), confusion, agitation, social withdrawal,
psychosis, and bizarre behavior

4. Symptoms may include: flat effect (exhibiting no
emotion), delusions, hallucinations, or disorganized
thinking
Paranoid schizophrenia is a subtype of schizophrenia
in which the patient has delusions (false beliefs)
that a person or some individuals are plotting
against them or members of their family.
The majority of people with paranoid schizophrenia, as
with most schizophrenia subtypes may also have auditory
hallucinations - they hear things that are not real. They
may also have delusions of personal grandeur - a false
belief ,,

5. Examples of the most common paranoid symptoms are:
delusions of persecution, reference, exalted birth,
special mission, bodily change, or jealousy;
hallucinatory voices that threaten the patient or give
commands, or auditory hallucinations without verbal
form, such as whistling, humming, or laughing;
hallucinations of smell or taste, or of sexual or other
bodily ..

6. The general criteria for a diagnosis of schizophrenia (see
introduction to F20 above) must be satisfied. In addition,
hallucinations and/or delusions must be prominent, and
disturbances of affect, volition and speech, and catatonic
symptoms must be relatively inconspicuous
. The hallucinations will usually be of the kind described in (b)
and (c) above. Delusions can be of almost any kind of delusions
of control, influence, or passivity, and persecutory beliefs of
various kinds are the most characteristic.