gaviWith schizophrenia there’s more to it than just hallucinations and psychosis. You technically don’t even need to hallucinate to have schizophrenia either. That’s because there’s other symptoms of schizophrenia and you need to have at least a few to be diagnosed.
In schizophrenia there is two types of symptoms, negative and positive. Think of it more like math. When talking about schizophrenia the usual symptoms people tend to think of like hallucinations, delusions, psychosis, etc those are additions to the reality, hence positive. You are adding something that wasn’t already there.
The other kind is sometimes more debilitating. When you subtract from someone’s reality it becomes negative symptoms. This is the anhedonia (reduced ability to experience pleasure), the alogia (reduced speech), avolition (lack of motivation to do much of anything) and much more.
This is the war that goes on inside the brain of someone living with schizophrenia. Have empathy and be mindful not to add to the stigma of this extremely hard mental illness.
In schizophrenia there is two types of symptoms, negative and positive. Think of it more like math. When talking about schizophrenia the usual symptoms people tend to think of like hallucinations, delusions, psychosis, etc those are additions to the reality, hence positive. You are adding something that wasn’t already there.
The other kind is sometimes more debilitating. When you subtract from someone’s reality it becomes negative symptoms. This is the anhedonia (reduced ability to experience pleasure), the alogia (reduced speech), avolition (lack of motivation to do much of anything) and much more.
This is the war that goes on inside the brain of someone living with schizophrenia. Have empathy and be mindful not to add to the stigma of this extremely hard mental illness.