Types+of+Schizophrenia

__ **Categories of Schizophrenia** __ Schizophrenia Stats **__Paranoid-Type Schizophrenia:__** characterized by delusions and auditory hallucinations (often times these people feel they are being persecuted unfairly, or believe they are someone famous)

**__Disorganized Type Schizophrenia:__** characterized by speech and behaviour that are disorganized or difficult to understand, flat or inappropriate emotions (often laughing at anything, have trouble with normal activities e.g. Showering, dressing, meals),

**__Catatonic-Type Schizophrenia:__** characterized by disturbances of movement (may keep themselves completely immobile or move all over the place and may sometimes not speak for hours) – this group is at a high risk because it impairs their ability to take care of themselves,

__**Undifferentiated-Type Schizophrenia:**__ characterized by some symptoms seen in all of the above types but not enough of any one of them to define it as another particular type of schizophrenia,

 __**Residual-Type Schizophrenia:**__ characterized by a past history of at least one episode of schizophrenia, but currently has no positive symptoms (it may represent a transition between a full-blown episode and complete remission, or it may continue for years without any further psychotic episodes), (Bengton, 2011)



//__There are also brief disorders that share some__ ////__of the qualities of schizophrenia, but are not long term, and they include:__// __**Brief Psychotic Disorder:**__ disturbance involving delusions, hallucinations, or disorganized speech or behaviour but last less than 1 month (often associated to a reaction to a stressor),

__**S****hare Psychotic Disorder (foile a deax):**__ when an individual develops a delusion similar to that of a person whom they share a close relationship with,

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Bengton, 2011)

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