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If I have Schizophrenia or paranoia or another psychotic disorder what should my physician be looking for?

With regard to Schizophrenic, Paranoid and Other Psychotic Disorders, the treating physician must look for and find psychotic features and deterioration that are persistent (continuous or intermittent), as evidenced by at least one of the following: delusions or hallucinations, catatonic or other grossly disorganized behavior, Incoherence, loosening of associations, illogical thinking, or poverty of content of speech if associated with one of the following: blunt affect, flat affect, Inappropriate affect, emotional withdrawal and/or isolation.