As a staff psychiatrist at the Lincoln Regional Center in Nebraska, Dr.
Jasung Kim builds on more than two decades of experience treating
patients with mental illness. Many of Dr. Jasung Kim’s patients have
presented with symptoms of schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia symptoms
fall into three categories. The first incorporates what mental health
professionals call positive symptoms, defined as new and unusual
experiences. Characteristic positive symptoms include hallucinations,
which are sensory experiences that others do not share. An hallucination
may be a sight that others do not see or a voice that no one else
hears, in contrast to delusions, which are deeply held beliefs that
persist, despite the fact that they are not logical.
Individuals
with schizophrenia may also experience negative symptoms, which are
those experiences that cease to happen with the onset of the disease. A
person may, for example, begin to struggle with basic self-care tasks or
withdraw from social interaction. It is also common for the individual
to present with a flat affect, defined as a loss of emotional feeling.
The
third category includes cognitive symptoms, or thinking problems, such
as having a hard time organizing one’s thoughts or keeping track of
different things at the same time.
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