Shizophrenia
Types of Schizophrenia 1. Disorganized or Hebephrenic Type Marked by inappropriate emotion: inappropriate giggling, laughter, silliness, incoherent speech, infantile behavior, and strange and at times obscene behavior. 2. Paranoid Schizophrenia The patient experiences delusions and hallucinations of his own greatness. Behavior is unpredictable, and erratic. Sense of judgment is lost. 3. Catatonic Schizophrenia Catatonic schizophrenia is marked by disturbances in the motor activity and muscular control. Major disturbances occur in movement. At times all motion stops and the patient just freezes in one position. This frozen posture may last for hours and even days. In some phases the patient exhibits wild, free floating, and even violent movement. 4. Undifferentiated Schizophrenia This variety of schizophrenia involves a combination of the major symptoms found in other varieties. This diagnosis is used when patients do not fit into any one of the major categories of schizophrenia. 5. Residual Schizophrenia Residual schizophrenia consists of minor signs of schizophrenia after a major, more serious, episode.