Psychiatry - UNC School of Medicine
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Observations from home
What are some changes I might notice?
Often these basic symptoms may be accompanied by a change in behavior. While these changes can be very subtle or vague, a person experiencing basic symptoms or their friends and family may notice:
- Discomfort out in public/spending more time alone
- Less motivation
- Dropping out of activities
- Drop in grades at school
- Not working as carefully/loss of employment
- Using drugs and alcohol
- More mystical/philosophical or religious ideas
- More argumentative/blameful/challenging towards family
- Blank expressions, not responding to questions or frequently asking for questions to be repeated
- Trouble sleeping
- Impaired hygiene
- More worried/anxious
- Easily overwhelmed and more sensitive to stress
- Refusing to spend time with friends/family for example to eat meals