Schizophrenia Symptoms: Positive or Negative?

Bizarre beliefs that seem real to the person with schizophrenia, but are not real. Sometimes, these delusions can be paranoid, in nature, e.g. fear of persecution. Delusions may also involve inflated beliefs about the person's power and importance. Delusions of these have references that involve the belief that the behaviour of others, even on TV, are meant for them alone.

Experience of Control: The person may believe that they are under the control of an alien force that has invaded their mind or body. This may be interpreted as the presence of spirits of implanted radio transmitters.

Hallucinations are bizarre, unreal perceptions of the environment that are usually auditory (hearing voices), but may also be visual (seeing lights, objects or faces), olfactory (smelling things) or tactile (feeling bugs crawling on your skin, for example)

Disordered thinking, the feeling that thoughts have been inserted or withdrawn from the mind. In some cases, the person may believe their thoughts are being broadcast so others can hear them.

Affective Flattening; A reduction in the range and intensity of emotional expression: including facial expression, voice tone, eye contact and body language.

Alogia: Poverty of speech, characterised by the lessening of speech fluency and productivity, thought to reflect slowing of blocked thoughts.

Avolition: The reduction of, or the inability to initiate and persist in goal-directed behaviour, such as sitting in the house every day doing nothing.

I am Superman!

Tiny people inside my head control me

I am riding the bus all day w/out getting off.

My friends made me a birthday surprise and i also won the lottery and my cat turned out to be actual cannibal shia laboeuf and my leg just fell off this is the best day of my life this is terrible am i sad look a genie came out of this lamp which reminds me i need to fix the bulb in my desk lamp all-righty then.