Delirium vs. Schizophrenia

Deliriumnoun

A temporary mental state with a sudden onset, usually reversible, including symptoms of confusion, inability to concentrate, disorientation, anxiety, and sometimes hallucinations. Causes can include dehydration, drug intoxication, and severe infection.

Schizophrenianoun

(pathology) A psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness characterised by abnormal perception, thinking, behavior and emotion, often marked by delusions.

Deliriumnoun

A state in which the thoughts, expressions, and actions are wild, irregular, and incoherent; mental aberration; a roving or wandering of the mind, - usually dependent on a fever or some other disease, and so distinguished from mania, or madness.

Schizophrenianoun

Any condition in which disparate or mutually exclusive activities coexist; a lack of decision between options.

Deliriumnoun

Strong excitement; wild enthusiasm; madness.

‘The popular delirium [of the French Revolution] at first caught his enthusiastic mind.’; ‘The delirium of the preceding session (of Parliament).’;

Schizophrenianoun

any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact

Deliriumnoun

state of violent mental agitation

Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by continuous or relapsing episodes of psychosis. Major symptoms include hallucinations (typically hearing voices), delusions, and disorganized thinking.

Deliriumnoun

a usually brief state of excitement and mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinations

Delirium

Delirium, also known as acute confusional state, is an organically caused decline from a previous baseline mental functioning, that develops over a short period of time, typically hours to days. Delirium is a syndrome encompassing disturbances in attention, consciousness, and cognition.