Would you say that the following character traits describes Schizophrenics????

Question

Simple, slow, sensitive, soft, and stubborn

Answer 1

No, not at all! Schizophrenia is characterized by profound disruption in cognition and emotion, affecting the most fundamental human attributes: language, thought, perception, affect, and sense of self. The array of symptoms, while wide ranging, frequently includes psychotic manifestations, such as hearing internal voices or experiencing other sensations not connected to an obvious source (hallucinations) and assigning unusual significance or meaning to normal events or holding fixed false personal beliefs (delusions). No single symptom is definitive for diagnosis; rather, the diagnosis encompasses a pattern of signs and symptoms, in conjunction with impaired occupational or social functioning (Source: DSM-IV ) Symptoms include thought disorder, confusion, disorientation, and memory problems, loss of usual interests or pleasures (anhedonia); disturbances of sleep and eating; dysphoric mood (depressed, anxious, irritable, or angry mood); and difficulty concentrating or focusing attention

Answer 2

I would say that the following character traits describe Schizophrenics ...



Breakdown in reality testing (the ability to know what thing in the brain is in the real outside world or in the inside world) with subsequent

auditory hallucinations
thought disorder - thoughts entering one's head, or thought broadcasting where the thoughts go out to other people, tangential thinking - jumping from topic to topic with no apparent link, loosening of associations, clang associations, disorganization of thought

disorganization of behaviour (and also disorganization of dress sense)


Some schizophrenics are highly intelligent. Some are a little manic and buzz about like mad things. Some are completely insensitive. Some are quite hard.

Stubborn, I'll agree with. The delusions are difficult to manage because they persist despite all efforts to try to budge them.

Answer 3

No I think the best trait you would find is them saying things like...... "I used to be Schizophrenic, but WE'r ok now!"

Answer 4

If the person him\herself has those traits then yes. If they don't, then no. I would say though, that those traits don't indicate anything about the illness.

Answer 5

not at all! A schizophrenic person hears voices and his paronoiac

Answer 6

No, I would say that it might be a sign of a very mild mental retardation, but that's not even close to schitzophrenia symptoms.

Answer 7

Not necessarily...many people who do not have the illness exhibit those characteristics.

Answer 8

No. That could be a description for anyone.

Answer 9

sensitive, I would think.