Is schizoaffective disorder comorbid with bipolar disorder or...?!
Question: Can schizoaffective disorder be comorbid with bipolar disorder or does the schizoaffective disorder diagnosis cover the mood episodes enough by itself and make the bipolar disorder diagnosis unnecessary? Also, what is the difference between schizoaffective disorder and bipolar disorder with psychotic features?
Thanks in advance!
Answers: Can schizoaffective disorder be comorbid with bipolar disorder or does the schizoaffective disorder diagnosis cover the mood episodes enough by itself and make the bipolar disorder diagnosis unnecessary? Also, what is the difference between schizoaffective disorder and bipolar disorder with psychotic features?
Thanks in advance!
Schizoaffective disorder covers the mood symptoms so the bipolar portion is not a separate diagnosis. I think the difference between schizoaffective disorder and bipolar with psychotic features is that in schizoaffective the psychosis is present regardless of mood state and in bipolar disorder the psychosis is normally present during a manic episode. However, I'm not certain on that.
If you have a schizoaffective disorder, then hallucinations are eliminated when you're on antipsychotic medication. With psychosis the hallucinations are (usually) caused by ANXIETY so the medication doesn't get rid of them completely, it just helps a bit. Afraid I can't answer the first half of your question as I don't know.
well my mom is bi-polar.....anyways being schizo is a symptom of being bi-polar.
being schizo is like vanilla icecream
being bi-polar is like a large banana split sunday with all the colorfull toppings, there are a lot of mental symptoms attached to it like thinking your god-like, not being able to hold downa job, addictions, and child like sane behaviors
There is some question as to whether affective disorders and schizophrenia are a series of disorders on a spectrum - in other words, does effective disorder exist at one end, schizoaffective inhabit the middle, and schizophrenia exist at the other end.
If that's true, I don't think they can be co-morbid.
BTW:
"In my opinion if a disorder can't be tracked down clearly to a physical abnormality of some description then it doesn't exist."
A great many psychiatric disorders can be tracked by physical, magnetic, and/or electrical brain scans and tests. You might be interested to know that you can find this info on the web. Just google something like "brain scan" and the disorder you're interested in.
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There is also proof that with certain diagnoses, areas of the brain have shrunk and aren't working right and/or responding properly to brain chemicals.
Untrue! The monkeys from planet Zeebug 9 have told you lies! I know it was them, they keep bugging me when I experience out-of-body episodes!
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It's all just psycho babble to me. Call me arrogant but I don't have a lot of respect for the soft sciences. In my opinion if a disorder can't be tracked down clearly to a physical abnormality of some description then it doesn't exist.