Schizophrenia is basically a form of psychiatric disease that turns the persons suffering from it, from an overwhelming and happening world of reality to a terrifying world of confusions, danger delusions, and hallucination. Many a times the symptoms of schizophrenia are often described as “positive” and “negative”.
Positive symptoms are characterized by the things such as delusions, hallucinations, thought disorders and involuntary movements, and these things m may come and go in a short span of time.
Whereas, the negative symptoms are characterized by the things such as reduction in the normal behavior of a person (sign of abnormality), all the facial expressions from the face of a person are gone, there is inability to execute a full fledged plan which is made by them only. Poor hygiene and infrequent speech are the other symptoms. In some cases schizophrenia occurs continuously while in other cases patients suffer from a disorder named as schizophreniform.
There are basically five different types of schizophrenia, according to various researches, and the symptoms of these types vary accordingly. Various types of schizophrenia are characterized by paranoid schizophrenia, catatonic schizophrenia, disorganized schizophrenia, undifferentiated schizophrenia and residual. These types have their respective symptoms too.
The first type of schizophrenia is paranoid schizophrenia. In this type the symptoms are characterized by bizarre delusions and sometimes auditory hallucinations. Patients suffering from this type sometimes believe that someone on the television is talking to them; government has put up a spy for them, etc.
The second type of schizophrenia is disorganized schizophrenia. This is characterized by strange emotional responses. The various symptoms of this type includes a monotonic voice, inability to laugh, cry and show any type of emotional feeling, emotionless facial display.
The third type of schizophrenia is catatonic schizophrenia. The symptoms of this type are characterized by making jerky and bizarre movements, in addition to arms and legs flailing without any reason. The person suffering from this type is incapable of caring for himself/herself and suffers from a very severe mental illness.
The fourth type of schizophrenia is undifferentiated schizophrenia. In this type we cannot classify the disorder, of which type is it? Some patients show symptoms of different categories and form a new category called as undifferentiated schizophrenia.
The fifth type of schizophrenia is residual schizophrenia. This type of schizophrenia is found in persons who may have a past history but they no longer show signs of positive symptoms.
