Seven Categories of Positive Symptoms in Patients with Schizophrenia

1. Hallucinations: Perception of internal stimuli in auditory, visual, olfactory, or tactile forms.
2. Delusions: Beliefs that are groundless, idiosyncratic, and unreal.
3. Conceptual disorganization: Non-goal-directed flow of thinking process, loose associations.
4. Excitement: Excessive responsiveness to environment, accelerated motor behavior, hypervigilance.
5. Hostility: Verbal abuse, assaultive, sarcastic; nonverbal expression of anger or resentment.
6. Grandiosity: Unrealistic sense of superiority such as belief in extraordinary abilities, knowledge, power, wealth, or moral righteousness.
7. Suspiciousness: Excessive ideas of persecution resulting in guardedness, distrustful attitude, or verbalization of concern about being harmed.