What is the difference between schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder?
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Schizophrenia is a cognitive disorder, primary symptoms are affecting an individual's thought process.
Schizoaffective Disorder is basically a cross between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The individual experiences cognitive impairments, yet also experiences symptoms of a mood disorder.
schizophrenia is a mental illness that includes hallucinations, delusions, voices, etc. Schizoaffective is schizophrenia and bipolar disorder mixed together. The person will have symptoms of schizophrenia and of bipolar disorder.
What do you get when you cross schizophrenia with bipolar disorder? Schizoaffective disorder. It's actually not quite that simple, but that's a good way to think of this disorder as The symptoms of Schizoaffective Disorder look like a mixture of two kinds of major mental illnesses - mood disorders (depression, bipolar disorder) and schizophrenia. Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder are a devastating brain disorder. Schizophrenia interferes with a person's ability to think clearly, to distinguish reality from fantasy, to manage emotions, make decisions, and relate to others. There is no cure for Schizophrenia or Schizoaffective Disorder "at the present time", though they are highly manageable through medication.
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