symptoms of a schizophrenic person
Schizophrenia symptomsâ¶ are typically separated into 2 categories: Positive symptoms: Feelings or behaviors that are usually not present, such as: 1  Believing that what other people are saying is not true (delusions)  Hearing, seeing, tasting, feeling, or smelling things that others do not experience (hallucinations)
The negative symptoms of schizophrenia are passive in nature. They affect the personâs thinking, emotion and behavior and can be the most devastating of all the symptoms. Three of the most common are flat affect, alogia, and avolition.