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What's the difference between schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder?


What's the difference between schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder?

Schizophrenia is a name given to a neurological disorder, schizoaffective disorder is any disorder that has symptoms akin to schizophrenia.
Schizoaffective Disorder is a combination of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Go to your state mental health website and it should have information about both disorders.
Schizoaffective disorder - These people have symptoms of schizophrenia as well as mood disorder such as major depression, bipolar mania, or mixed mania.

Schizoaffective disorder is basically just a subset of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is characterized by profound disruption in cognition and emotion, affecting the most fundamental human attributes: language, thought, perception, affect, and sense of self. The array of symptoms, while wide ranging, frequently includes psychotic manifestations, such as hearing internal voices or experiencing other sensations not connected to an obvious source (hallucinations) and assigning unusual significance or meaning to normal events or holding fixed false personal beliefs (delusions). No single symptom is definitive for diagnosis; rather, the diagnosis encompasses a pattern of signs and symptoms, in conjunction with impaired occupational or social functioning
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