What are the onset signs of schizophrenia?

Answer 1

Psychosis: hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that no one else sees or hears), delusions (believing things are happening that no one else believes).

Social withdrawal.

Inappropriate affect/blunted emotions--like laughing without smiling, speaking in a monotone.

Disorganized thinking--conversation doesn't make sense, may include inappropriate laughter.

Answer 2

I am a psychiatrist and worked in a hospital aiming to treat schizophrenic patients. So i can say schizophrenia is a phenomenon that includes very very different features...Especially at the beginning. Some cases are very silent, socially retarded, but accepted by community ''good person'' at the beginning... At that point i must say every person showing same symptoms mentioned above are not schizophrenia... very hard and complex factors must be evaluated... A clinician has to follow up the patient for a while and has to make a diagnose... And some patients are showing more ''colorful'' symptoms like agitation, intense anxiety and hallucinations with various delusions .. aah really very different and decision making needs experiences.. shortly 1)No symptom can be accepted as a part of schizophrenia unless it lasts 6 months..2)Everyone fells symptoms like schizophrenia in a pert of life.. Mostly sensible and obsessive persons... and of course young persons... 3) Ä°f you are schizophrenic, it is not a cancer... it is not curable but treatable illness... it can be controlled easily and persons with schizophrenia continue ( Not may continue) their life as a part of community and without showing that they are schizophrenic.. 4) These last words are not dream and just true... for last 5 years.. 5)why don't you investigate that truth in spite of if you are schizophrenic... Happy and healthy days

................................Hey haha this didactical infos can be find easily everywhere .. but we have to care her emotions and deep depressive wiew of of life...

Answer 3

I have read your subsequent question on whether your husband is going "crazy",(I hate that word crazy for mental illness) and don't think he is developing schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is not a single disease but a spectrum of disorders. To find out what symptoms and criteria are necessary for a diagnosis of about any mental disorder, type "DSM-IV TR" into Yahoo! web search to access the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental disorders of the American Psychiatric Assoc. used by psychiatrists for diagnosis.

Good luck with your research, good mental health, peace and Love!

Answer 4

check this out: http://www.schizophrenia.com/

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Hallucinations.
Auditory: The false perception of sound, music, noises, or voices. Hearing voices when there is no auditory stimulus is the most common type of auditory hallucination in mental disorders. The voice may be heard either inside or outside one's head and is generally considered more severe when coming from outside one's head. The voices may be male or female, recognized as the voice of someone familiar or not recognized as familiar, and may be critical or positive. In mental disorders such as schizophrenia, however, the content of what the voices say is usually unpleasant and negative. In schizophrenia, a common symptom is to hear voices conversing and/or commenting. When someone hears voices conversing, they hear two or more voices speaking to each other (usually about the person who is hallucinating). In voices commenting, the person hears a voice making comments about his or her behavior or thoughts, typically in the third person (such as, "isn't he silly"). Sometimes the voices consist of hearing a "running commentary" on the person's behavior as it occurs ("she is showering"). Other times, the voices may tell the person to do something (commonly referred to as "command hallucinations").
Gustatory: A false perception of taste. Usually, the experience is unpleasant. For instance, an individual may complain of a persistent taste of metal. This type of hallucination is more commonly seen in some medical disorders (such as epilepsy) than in mental disorders.
Olfactory hallucination: A false perception of odor or smell. Typically, the experience is very unpleasant. For example, the person may smell decaying fish, dead bodies, or burning rubber. Sometimes, those experiencing olfactory hallucinations believe the odor emanates from them. Olfactory hallucinations are more typical of medical disorders than mental disorders.
Somatic/tactile hallucination: A false perception or sensation of touch or something happening in or on the body. A common tactile hallucination is feeling like something is crawling under or on the skin (also known as formication). Other examples include feeling electricity through one's body and feeling like someone is touching one's body but no one is there. Actual physical sensations stemming from medical disorders (perhaps not yet diagnosed) and hypochondriacal preoccupations with normal physical sensations, are not thought of as somatic hallucinations.
Visual hallucination: A false perception of sight. The content of the hallucination may be anything (such as shapes, colors, and flashes of light) but are typically people or human-like figures. For example, one may perceive a person standing before them when no one is
Colored positron emission tomography scan (PET scan) of the brain of a patient with schizophrenia who is experiencing a hallucination. Highlighted areas show brain activity. The patient's hallucination consisted of heads that spoke to him. The active areas of the brain seen here (the auditory and visual areas) confirm that the patient "saw" and "heard" the heads in the hallucination. (Wellcome Dept of Cognitive Neurology. Photo Researchers, Inc./Science Source. Reproduced by permission.)See color insert for color version of photo.there. Sometimes an individual may experience the false perception of religious figure (such as the devil, or Christ). Perceptions that would be considered normal for an individual's religion or culture are not considered hallucinations.
Mood-congruent hallucination: Any hallucination whose content is consistent with either the depressive or manic state the person may be in at the time. Depressive themes include guilt, death, disease, personal inadequacy, and deserved punishment. Manic themes include inflated self-worth, power, knowledge, skills, and identity and a special relationship with a famous person or deity. For example, a depressed person may hear voices saying that he or she is a horrible person, whereas a manic person may hear voices saying that he or she is an incredibly important person.
Mood-incongruent hallucination: Any hallucination whose content is not consistent with either the depressed or manic state the person is in at the time, or is mood-neutral. For example, a depressed person may experience hallucinations without any themes of guilt, death, disease, personal inadequacy, or deserved punishment. Similarly, a manic person may experience hallucinations without any themes of inflated self-worth, power, knowledge, skills, or identity or a special relationship to a famous person or deity.