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Dr. Bob..what happened to other posts? Dr. Bob...

Posted by jay on October 5, 2001, at 15:41:18

In reply to Redirected: Schizophrenia Question, posted by Dr. Bob on September 29, 2001, at 7:53:35

Dr Bob:

There where some other posts in this thread that where deleted when it was moved to this board. What happened to them?

Thanx..

Jay


> [Posted by JohnL on September 29, 2001, at 3:16:53]
>
> > > Why are symptoms of schizophrenia refered to as positive or negative? They all sound pretty bad to me.
> >
> > The terms 'positive' and 'negative' are used to describe the two different types of symptom clusters in schizophrenia. The words are not to be taken literally. Negative symptoms involve such things as social withdrawal and anhedonia, similar in many ways to depression or dysthymia. Postive symptoms include psychosis or hallucinations. It doesn't mean they are positive in any way, that is just the term they use to cluster those symptoms together.
> > John


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