Schizophrenia Blog by Ian McKenzie

The positive symptom I’ll be talking about in this post is agitation or irritability. I could be wrong, but I feel like agitation is

If you live or work with a schizophrenic person, you may as yourself a question often asked. Why are schizophrenics lazy? In this post,

In this post, I continue talking about positive symptoms, in particular, thought disorders. These include things like making loose associations, trouble organizing thoughts or

Hallucinations are hearing, seeing, tasting, feeling and smelling things that aren’t actually there. Out of all hallucinations that exist, the most prevalent symptom is

I’m a 31-year-old schizophrenic male and in the last four years, I’ve become incredibly high functioning. It started with a change in medication, then

Delusions are also a ‘positive symptom’ and, like hallucinations can be very disruptive to a schizophrenic person’s life. A delusion is defined as false