Symptoms of Schizophrenia

The symptom of schizophrenia is divided into 3 categories: 

positive symptom, 

negative symptom and 

cognitive symptom.

1) Positive symptom.

It is the psychotic behaviour that only possesses by schizophrenia people but not a normal people. Eg: delusion, thought disorder, movement disorder and hallucination.

2) Negative symptom. 

It is when people of schizophrenia does not possesses the behaviour that normal people have. Eg: Lack of emotional, lack of interest or enthusiasm, seeming lack of interest in the world and speech difficulties and abnormalities.Behavioral deficiencies also associated with schizophrenia, such as social skills deficits, social withdrawal, flattened affect, poverty of speech and thought, psychomotor retardation, and failure to experience pleasure.

3) Cognitive symptoms.

It is only can be recognize through several task for example, poor executive functioning (the ability to understand information and use it to make decisions),rouble focusing or paying attention, and problems with working memory (the ability to use information immediately after learning it).