Paranoid Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia can be defined as the mental dysfunction, leading to an abnormal behavior, and the symptoms of the patients can be taken into the consideration for the types of schizophrenia. However, it has been observed that the more than one type of schizophrenia disorder may also affect a person.

Broadly, the diagnosis has been divided into five types-

1. Catatonic
2. Paranoid
3. Residual
4. Disorganized
5. Undifferentiated Disorder Schizophrenia.

The most common form is the Paranoid Scizophrenia, which may be regarded as the auditory hallucinations or delusions. The patients think that people are behaving as enemy to them, such as feeding poison to them, harassing them, cheating or spying about them and also disbelieving them, though, it may not be the case in reality.

In the Auditory Hallucinations, patient hears false voices of the surrounding people. Patients may hear some voices ordering them, warning them of some kind of danger and talking about the affection of the syndrome. But, the people around the person may not be doing all these activities in reality. However, the Paranoid Schizophrenia affected person does not get any disorder in his thought process or in its behavior, which may be observed in the other form of the Schizophrenia.

The catatonic Schizophrenia affected people becomes unusual coordinated behavior, clumsy in behavior, movements of the body involuntarily etc. However, this is a rare type of the Scizophrenia. The patient may repeat its certain motions or actions continuously again and again. As the name indicates, the disordered person becomes catatonic.

If a person affected by any Scizophrenia for a long time, then he may be affected by the Residual Scizophrenia. It is considered as a negative schizophrenia in which, the person looses interest in day to day life, shows less ability in interaction to other person after many times to speak, lack of action for any planned activity, neglect their living style and hygiene etc.

The type of schizophrenia, which affects the person mainly on its thought process, is known as the disorganized schizophrenia. This is also known as the Thought blocking disorder. As a symptom, the patient having this disorder performs not understandable speeches and stops, while speaking continuously. The patient forgets about his speech and lead to the neologisms. The disorder affects the facial expressions and the voice also making it monotonous one.

The Undifferentiated Schizophrenia is not a consistent form of disease. The people, who are affected by it, show multiple symptoms of verbal and behavioral activities inconsistently.

Originally posted 2009-04-25 17:02:05.