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psychosis
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significant loss of contact with reality / ability to tell what is real and what is not real
slip from reality
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positive psychotic symptoms
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reflect an excess or distortion in a normal repertoire of behavior and experience such as delusions and hallucinations
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negative psychotic symptoms
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reflect an absence or deficit of behaviors that are normally present such as flat or blunted emotional expressiveness, alogia (very little speech), avolition (no ability to initiate or persist in goal-directed activities)
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echopraxia
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involuntary repetition or imitation of the observed movements of another
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echololalia
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involuntary repetition of another's speech; parrot-like repetition of a few words
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delusion
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an essentially erroneous belief that is fixed and firmly held despite clear contradictory evidence
not just social, religious, cultural beliefs that are shared by others in the group
disturbance in the content of thought
positive symptom
hallucination - perceptual experiences
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persecutory delusion
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people are out to get me
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reference delusion
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believing that arbitrary behaviors and motions from someone on television are signaling something special
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grandiosity delusion
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thinking very highly of oneself like believing they are the messiah
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thought insertion delusion
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thoughts being controlled by external force
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thought broadcasting delusion
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people can hear my thoughts
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thought withdrawal delusion
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people are stealing my thoughts
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sin/guilt delusion
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thinking you killed someone or being pretty sure you caused an earthquake
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somatic delusion
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intestines replaced with snakes and bowels not being able to function
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loose associations
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speech doesn't follow normal rules of language -- hard to follow
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word salad
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jumble of words in a sentence
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neologisms
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invention of new words
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clangs
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answering based on sounds "may hay day"
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perseveration
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repeating the same words over and over again
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alogia
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poverty of speech (i.e. mutism)
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avolition
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inability to persist in common goal related tasks
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anhedonia
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inability to feel enjoyment
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prodromal
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before diagnosis / very early signs
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schizophrenia
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core symptoms (delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, grossly disorganized behavior, negative symptoms) for at least 1 month; signs for at least 6 months
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schizophreniform
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mini schizophrenia (in terms of time frame, not symptoms)
schizophrenia-like psychoses that lasts at least 1 month, but less than 6
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brief psychotic disorder
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shorter than schizophreniform - more than 1 day, less than 1 month
sudden onset of psychotic symptoms or grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior
episode usually lasts only a few days
often triggered by stress
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schizoaffective disorder
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an illness during which, at some time, there is either a Major Depressive Episode, Manic Episode, Mixed Episode that co-occurs with symptoms of Schizophrenia (delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, disorganized behavior, negative symptoms)
during illness, must be period of at least 2 weeks where delusions and hallucinations have been present without mood symptoms
mood symptoms are present for a substantial proportion of the total illness time
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