Early clinical symptoms of schizophrenia

       1, emotional depression or suspicion of illness Some schizophrenia patients have early symptoms such as feeling sad for no reason or always feeling depressed because they have a serious illness. Some patients who have the disease claim that they have an incurable disease and ask the doctor to confirm the diagnosis.  2. Delusional hallucination symptoms Some schizophrenia patients have verbal hallucinations early on, followed by secondary delusions of victimization. For example, a secondary school chemistry teacher happened to hear a voice after class saying, “Be careful, they are going to harm you.” The patient gradually became paranoid and sensitive, believing that the school leadership did not trust him and that he had joined hands with certain teachers to backstab him. For this reason, he wrote a letter of accusation to the central government, and the case was not investigated by the reception office of the Party Central Committee before the patient was sent to the psychiatric department for examination.  3. excitement and agitation Some patients with acute onset schizophrenia show sudden excitement, agitation, hitting and destroying things, and living without knowing how to take care of themselves, etc. It is common in youthful type schizophrenia.  4. Personality change is the most common early symptom of schizophrenia, mostly seen in those patients with slow onset. Specific manifestations are the gradual dulling of mental activities, such as patients gradually becoming indifferent and distant from others, lacking the enthusiasm of the past, many patients are hostile to their closest people instead; becoming silent and less talkative, especially reluctant to interact with people, avoiding relatives, etc. Some patients become lonely and introverted (if they were lonely and introverted in the past, they are aggravated on top of the original character), sitting alone or wandering around aimlessly. Life also becomes lazy, unhygienic and undisciplined.  5, class neurosis performance Some patients feel gradually struggling to learn, can not focus on the lecture, often headache, dizziness, insomnia at night, and fatigue during the day, for this reason and often lose temper, work, learning performance decline. The main difference between early schizophrenia-like symptoms and neurosis is that the former conceals traces of the basic symptoms of schizophrenia behind the symptoms, such as the lack of mental stimuli that form the basis for the onset of the illness, the lack of painful experience of the symptoms, and the lack of initiative and urgency in seeking medical attention, despite the narrative that they have many symptoms. In some cases, the onset of schizophrenia is characterized by a cluster of obsessive-compulsive neurosis-like symptoms, such as fear of getting dirty, fear of heights, fear of making mistakes, and fear of unexplained anxiety.  6, the appearance of a single symptom of schizophrenia Some schizophrenic disorders may appear early on as a single symptom of schizophrenia. For example, a high school student, who suddenly has an idea that his parents are not biological, fights with them, “You are not my biological parents at all.” Another patient with schizophrenia developed voyeurism (looking in the mirror for no reason), depersonalization (feeling that he and his surroundings have become unreal), episodic auditory hallucinations or visual hallucinations, and so on, early in the illness.  Experts remind us that it is important to treat schizophrenia early, as the more severe the condition of the patient becomes, the less treatable it is, and the more frequent the onset of the disease, the greater the damage to the patient, and this damage is permanent and incurable. If you can take timely measures to treat the disease early, the treatment effect will be relatively good and the patient will have a greater chance of being cured.