People with schizophrenia may be more likely to experience false memories. Symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions concerning things that are not real may give rise to a person believing ...

As an example, if they hear a voice that details what they are doing, a person might develop a delusion that someone is watching them and their movements. Not everyone with schizophrenia will ...

Delusions are false beliefs that you ... that someone or something is “out to get you.” For example, a person with paranoid ...

A 33-year-old woman hears brutal and frightening voices daily but continues her college studies. A middle-aged man, who served in the Navy and has since struggled with substance ...

The presence of systemized delusions—defined as false beliefs that are firmly sustained despite strong and consistent evidence to the contrary—favored a diagnosis of schizophrenia. These ...

A new study reveals the connection between social media use and mental health challenges, particularly for self-identity ...

Both bipolar disorder and schizophrenia can cause hallucinations and delusions, but symptoms are more severe in schizophrenia. Bipolar disorder involves shifts in energy and mood. Bipolar disorder ...

Schizoaffective Disorder Schizoaffective disorder is a psychiatric condition that shares some symptoms of schizophrenia, such as delusions and hallucinations, but also involves mood symptoms ...

The acute phase of schizophrenia is the florid psychotic phase, during which the patient exhibits acute symptoms--for example, severe delusions and/or hallucinations (positive symptoms ...

These drugs do not cure schizophrenia, but help relieve the most troubling symptoms, including delusions, hallucinations, and thinking problems. While medication may help relieve symptoms of ...

which may reinforce paranoia or delusions of persecution. For example, a person with schizophrenia might believe that an ad or news story appearing on their feed is specifically directed at them ...