Classified as having a psychological disorder

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What are the four behavioral criteria necessary for a person to be classified as having a psychological disorder?

Characterized by unusual patterns of movement and bizarre postures. Their behavior may show excessive, repetitive activity, not related to the events around them (and thus apparently purposeless). Or they may show almost no movement at all, remaining motionless and unresponsive for hours or days at a time. _____

Lacks the unifying theme other schizophrenia, so that any delusions or hallucinations that occur tend to be fragmented and have little meaning. People with this type of schizophrenia are less likely to recover than those with other forms of the disorder.______

Preoccupied with at least one delusion (such as “CIA agents are watching my every move.”) They also have frequent auditory hallucinations, often related to their delusions (such as “I can hear the clicking of the computer chip they implanted in my brain to scan my memories.”). Their delusions and hallucinations tend to have a unifying theme, most often persecution or grandiose self-importance. _______

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