2. Despite the connotation of the word positive, positive
symptoms of schizophrenia include,
• Thought disorganization
• Delusions
• Hallucinations
• Paranoia
http://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/550755_13
All of which can cause the sufferer to feel, or
appear to others, as though he or she were lost
(even in an otherwise familiar setting). Social
interactions can become overwhelming. Positive
symptoms can cause schizophrenics to withdraw
from society and isolate themselves.
3. • Ambivalence
Having simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings about
an object or person
• Anhedonia
The inability to experience pleasure in acts which would normally
produce pleasure.
• Affective Flattening
Expressions which appear, inappropriately, to be devoid of
emotion.
• Impoverished speech
Communication seems incoherent, sentences jump from one
subject to another, or words or complete thoughts seem to be missing from
sentences.
http://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/550755_13
Definitions taken from http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/hp.asp
Negative symptoms can cause the sufferer to
appear as though he or she is lacking important
4. • Anxiety
• Agitation
• Suicidality
• Distractibility
• Catatonic or trancelike states
• Abstract thinking impairment (does not seem to grasp
generalizations and common concepts)
http://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/550755_13
Mood and Neurocognitive symptoms can
have a great impact on the sufferer’s ability to
form and maintain relationships.
5.
6. Perhaps you’ve made a wrong turn, gotten turned around
in an unfamiliar part of town, or have gotten off the
highway too soon or too late. In any case, most of us hate
that lost feeling.
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7. Have you ever felt as though you
were
Missing key information?
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17. A second chance to
make sense of a
scattered reality
James Cook, MD MS (also known as Nash
Baldwin on Second Life), is the creator of the Virtual
Hallucinations Project, a space within the Second Life
virtual reality venue, which allow an individual to
experience a setting or environment with the virtual
eyes and ears (examples of possible auditory and
visual hallucinations) of a schizophrenic. The Second
Life building was designed by Doctor Cook based on
the descriptions he was given by two separate patients
with schizophrenia. The project is intended to heighten
awareness pertaining to the disease. According to
Peter M. Yellowlees, M.B.B.S., M.D. and James N.
Cook, M.D., M.S., “A common cause of frustration and
alienation for sufferers of schizophrenia is that their
therapists, family members, and caregivers cannot
really understand their experiences.”
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