Paranoiacs have all the symptoms of the simple schizophrenic but with more intensity, delusions of grandeur, moodiness, and a strong distrust of other people, even to the point of believing that people are after them. Hebephrenics have hallucinations and delusions, and are continually moving from one subject to another, and from one space to another. Catatonics usually act as if they are afraid of any movement at all, and can stay in one position for very long periods of time unless physically moved by another person. They rarely will communicate verbally. However, occasionally one might suddenly become violent.
Effective psychotics can move, in a moment, from being hyperactive to being extremely depressed.
In the past, psychotics usually would be confined in some way. Today, in most states, only those who are of extreme danger to themselves or their community are in mental facilities. Unfortunately, many of those released from institutions, or who have none to go to, live in adverse circumstances, often the streets. When I lived in New York City, it was not uncommon to see deranged people throughout the city, in streets, on buses and subways, behaving in very odd ways, even threatening or otherwise abusing passerbys. They had no home of their own except what they made in or under the streets.