Symptoms of schizophrenia in the elderly?

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With the increase of life pressure, there are often psychiatric patients in our life. Of course, the elderly are also among them. The elderly psychiatric patients are extremely unfavorable for the elderly. What are the symptoms of schizophrenia in the elderly? Now let me tell you something.

Symptoms of schizophrenia in the elderly?

The elderly will have emotional disorders when suffering from schizophrenia, and the emotional aspects of elderly schizophrenic patients also have obvious symptoms. The patients will show certain symptoms of emotional indifference to the people around them, even close people. They are indifferent to the things around them, and their mental outlook is also very indifferent, and even have the appearance of numbness.

For schizophrenia, hallucination and delusion are the most obvious symptoms. Senile schizophrenia is no exception. Elderly patients often have various hallucination and delusion symptoms, especially hallucination and auditory hallucination. Patients often hear others discuss themselves behind their backs, slander themselves, and others are obviously discussing other things, Patients can take these words as the basis of auditory hallucination, in which their illness is deeply painful and difficult to extricate themselves.

There are obvious abnormal symptoms in the thinking state of elderly schizophrenic patients, that is to say, they are unable to have normal association and thinking. The thinking process of patients is very difficult. The thinking of patients is often lack of logic and coherence, and they often suddenly come up with ideas one after another, but there is no coherence between each idea, As a result, the patient's words become incoherent, unable to communicate with others, which also increases the difficulty of treatment.

matters needing attention

The elderly should actively cooperate with the treatment when suffering from schizophrenia, and their families should take more care of the patients. There are many symptoms in the elderly suffering from schizophrenia, many elderly people in schizophrenia will appear lazy, poor willpower and other symptoms, seriously affecting the normal life of the elderly.