A nurse is caring for a patient who is experiencing a flat affect, paranoid delusions, anhedonia, anergia, neologisms, and echolalia. Which statement correctly differentiates the patient’s positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia?

Since the options have not been given, the question is incomplete. The complete question is as follows:

1. Paranoid delusions, anhedonia, and anergia are positive symptoms of schizophrenia.

2. Paranoid delusions, neologisms, and echolalia are positive symptoms of schizophrenia.

3. Paranoid delusions, anergia, and echolalia are negative symptoms of schizophrenia.

4. Paranoid delusions, flat affect, and anhedonia are negative symptoms of schizophrenia.

2. Paranoid delusions, neologisms, and echolalia are positive symptoms of schizophrenia.

Explanation:

The positive symptoms of schizophrenia includes the paranoid delusions, echolalia and neologism whereas the negative symptoms of the schizophrenia includes the anhedonia, anergia and flat affect.

Positive symptoms are the indicative of disturbance or inability to perform the normal functions whereas the negative symptoms refer to the loss of the normal functioning of the body or diminution. Positive symptoms include all the feelings or behavior which are not true in the real sense. The sense organs may feel stimuli like taste, heeling, observing that are not always true. In the negative symptoms the person may show lack of interest from the reality.