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What is the medical term meaning mental disorder characterized by delusion and hallucination and disorganized speech?
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∙ 14y ago
I believe that mental disorder is referred to as schizophrenia.
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What is a simple definition of the condition 'schizophrenia'?
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by disruptions in thinking, emotions, and behaviors. Symptoms can include hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking, and difficulty in distinguishing reality from imagination. Treatment often involves a combination of therapy and medication.
How is schizoaffective distinguished from disorganized schizophrenia?
Schizoaffective disorder includes a diagnosable mood disorder. Most people with disorganized schizophrenia do not meet the diagnostic criteria for a mood disorder. There may be some overlap between disorganized schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder with unipolar depression. However, positive symptoms (such as delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized speech) will be present more prominently in people with schizoaffective disorder.
How do you spell disorginized?
The correct spelling is disorganized (in disarray or disorder).
What is Schenzophrenic?
Schizophrenica: severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations.
What is the difference between hallucination and paranoid?
a hallucination is when you see, hear, smell, taste, or feel something that isn't there with the compelling feeling or thought that it is real. a pseudohallucination is an image vivid enough to be a hallucination but recognized as unreal.
A psychotic disorder characterized by withdrawal from reality?
Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder characterized by symptoms such as hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking, and social withdrawal. It often involves a disconnect from reality and can severely impact a person's ability to function in daily life. Treatment typically involves a combination of medication and therapy to manage symptoms and improve quality of life.
What is typical for schitzophrenia?
Symptoms of schitzophrenia include: -Cognitive: Behavioral: social isolation, disorganized behavior, aggression, agitation, compulsive behavior, excitability, hostility, repetitive movements, self-harm, or lack of restraint social isolation, disorganized behavior, aggression, agitation, compulsive behavior, excitability, hostility, repetitive movements, self-harm, or lack of restraintonfusion, slowness in activity, or false belief of superiority- -Mood: anger, anxiety, apathy, feeling detached from self, general discontent, loss of interest or pleasure in activities, elevated mood, or inappropriate emotional response -Psychological: hallucination, paranoia, hearing voices, depression, fear, persecutory delusion, or religious delusion -Speech: circumstantial speech, incoherent speech, rapid and frenzied speaking, or speech disorder -Also common: fatigue, impaired motor coordination, lack of emotional response, or memory loss
How do you spell dillusion?
Although from the same root as illusion, the mental disorder is spelled delusion.
What is the scientific name for Schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia is a scientific name. Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by a disintegration of thought processes and of emotional responsiveness. It most commonly manifests as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking, and it is accompanied by significant social or occupational dysfunction.
How many people have capgras delusion?
Capgras delusion is a rare psychiatric disorder, and prevalence estimates vary. It is thought to affect less than 1% of the general population. The exact number of people with Capgras delusion is not known due to underreporting and misdiagnosis.
Is hallucination a side effect of medication for obsessive compulsive disorder?
Ask your doctor, it may effect people differently.
What are some synonyms for the word disorganized?
Some synonyms for the word disorganized include: cluttered, messy, disarray,unsystematic, confused, chaos, haphazard, jumbled, muddled, disorder, disordered, and disarrange
