Negative symptoms of schizophrenia are dominated by impoverished thinking, emotional indifference, and withdrawn behavior, while depression is dominated by depressed mood, delayed thinking, and diminished volitional activity.
There is a difference between depression and schizophrenia with predominantly negative symptoms, with different symptom characteristics, disease duration, and self-awareness.
1. Negative symptoms of schizophrenia are mainly emotional indifference, poor thinking, reduced speech, withdrawn behavior, the course of the disease is persistent, and schizophrenic patients are generally unaware of themselves.
2. The main symptoms of patients with depression are depressed mood, fatigue, decreased interest, depressed state of mind, cognitive impairment, etc.; depression occurs as an intermittent course of the disease, in addition, patients with depression have self-awareness.
When you find symptoms of mental illness, go to the psychiatry department in time, assessed by a professional doctor before treatment, do not be negligent to diagnose on your own, so as not to delay the condition.