Brief Psychotic Disorder involves symptoms from which category?

Brief Psychotic Disorder involves symptoms from which category?

• A. Negative symptoms
• B. Positive symptoms
• C. Mood symptoms
• D. Catatonic symptoms

Answer: (B)

Positive symptoms are the hallmark of Brief Psychotic Disorder. This condition centers on the emergence of psychotic experiences that add to normal function, such as delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized thinking or behavior. These are called positive symptoms because they are additions beyond typical experience, unlike negative symptoms—which are reductions in normal functions like flat affect or avolition—mood symptoms—which relate to affective episodes—and catatonic symptoms—which are motor phenomena. In Brief Psychotic Disorder, these positive psychotic symptoms appear suddenly and remit fully, with full return to baseline functioning typically within a short period.

Positive symptoms are the hallmark of Brief Psychotic Disorder. This condition centers on the emergence of psychotic experiences that add to normal function, such as delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized thinking or behavior. These are called positive symptoms because they are additions beyond typical experience, unlike negative symptoms—which are reductions in normal functions like flat affect or avolition—mood symptoms—which relate to affective episodes—and catatonic symptoms—which are motor phenomena. In Brief Psychotic Disorder, these positive psychotic symptoms appear suddenly and remit fully, with full return to baseline functioning typically within a short period.