 [ Symptoms ] do all people with schizophrenia act the same [ Disease ] no there are five types of schizophrenia some overlapping but each affecting behavior in a different way they are paranoid schizophrenia this results in feelings of persecution that sometimes alternate with grandiosity disorganized schizophrenia this causes primarily incoherent speech or thought but may not involve delusions catatonic schizophrenia there is total withdrawal from reality causing a person to not speak assume bizarre body positions and appear to be in almost a trance like state residual schizophrenia while classic signs of schizophrenia    such as delusions    may no longer be a problem patients still have very little or no motivation or drive and little interest in life schizoaffective disorder this is a combined diagnosis that involves the classic symptoms of schizophrenia along with those of another mental illness most commonly bipolar disorder manic depression