What are the clinical features of Schizophrenia?

Hearing things that aren't there
Seeing things that aren't there
Talking to things that aren't there
Paranoia, Delusions

Voices (saying "allah akbar")
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The basic Clinical features of Schizophrenia are having delusional thinking and ideas as well as hallucinations. Here is what this means.

Hallucinations

These are when are person seems to sense something is real when it's not. For example, seeing spiders crawling up their body or seeing angels.

Hearing Voices

Often people with Schizophrenia, describe having people talking to them in their heads. They usually think of these voices as real beings or spirits. For example, Steven would commonly have 3 main voices in his head, these were the wicked witch, the commander, and Jesus. There would be others, from time to time, but he wouldn't recognize who they were. These voices would often talk to him, and "tell" him to do things. Often he was greatly troubled by the voice of the wicked witch, who he would say told him that he had to kill or rape people that he seemed to care for in his everyday life. While Jesus would reassure him that he was good, kind and holy.

Delusions

These are basically irrational beliefs. If we use the example of Steven above, we can demonstrate this. Steven, believed that he was God's special prophet, and had special powers to control people. However, he believed that the wicked witch was trying to take him over, and would often seize control of his body, or send him messages through the TV or radio. Delusions often take the form of being highly special, powerful or important, or of outside forces controlling people, or communicating with them.

There are lots of other forms of delusion, they are listed in categories, but the theme that runs through them all is that they are beliefs that the person has that are not based on what the rest of the world would agree with.

Here is a link to diagnostic features of the different types of Schizophrenia:

http://www.mentalhealth.com/dis1/p21-ps0...

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