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Originally Posted by chickenfoot
My pdoc told me that schizoaffective is just schizophrenia with a mood element. Though according to the ICD classification it looks like schizoaffective disorder is much more complicated than that.
F25 Schizoaffective disorders
F25.0 Schizoaffective disorder, manic type
F25.1 Schizoaffective disorder, depressive type
F25.2 Schizoaffective disorder, mixed type
F25.8 Other schizoaffective disorders
F25.9 Schizoaffective disorder, unspecified
A fifth character may be used to classify the following subtypes:
.x0 Concurrent affective and schizophrenic symptoms only
.x1 Concurrent affective and schizophrenic symptoms, plus persistence of the schizophrenic symptoms beyond the duration of the affective symptoms
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How do they distinguish Schizoaffective, depressive type from someone with Schizophrenia who is depressed? I mean it's not uncommon for those with sz to get depressed but that doesn't mean they have schizoaffective necessarily...