Positive symptoms

What will be an ideal response?


Include delusions, hallucinations

Delusions: belief most see as misrepresentation of reality
Persecutory
Ideas of reference
Grandiose
Somatic
Erotomanic

Express, defend with conviction despite contrary evidence
Unable to consider others' views

Hallucinations
May involve any sensory system

Auditory most common

Most frequent when otherwise unoccupied or restricted from external sensory input

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