Sometimes referred to as depressive schizophreniaSchizoaffective disorder combines clinical signs of bipolar disorder And the Schizophrenia. This mental illness, whose manifestations are particularly heterogeneous, remains difficult to diagnose.
This mental illness has been described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) since 1952, and is regularly questioned by a part of the medical community that considers it not as a clinical entity in itself, but as a specific disorder. Misty, halfway between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. According to the International Classification of Diseases (Cim) published byWorld Health OrganizationSchizoaffective disorders are defined as “episodic disorders, in which affective symptoms and those of schizophrenia are jointly prominent in symptoms, but which do not warrant a diagnosis of schizophrenia or a depressive or manic episode.”
Schizoaffective disorder presents with symptoms of both schizophrenia and a mood disorder. Clinical signs intersect, but are not necessarily related to each other. This means that while the psychotic symptoms of schizophrenia will fade away, the mood disorders will not. There are two types of symptoms:
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