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What are the signs and symptoms of schizophrenia and how are they different from a personality disorder?
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Schizophrenia: Schizophrenia entails six months of symptoms and must significantly impair functioning; symptoms are not due to drugs or another illness.Symptoms include hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech and behavior, lack of motivation and emotional expression, low energy, poor grooming. Personality disorders are long-term maladaptive patterns of thoughts and behaviors that cause distress.
Answered 5/8/2016
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