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Originally Posted by Jesseh
Im a little confused on the type thing. Does this mean i have schhizophrenia and bipolar? Do i have bipolar disorder at all if i am diagnosed schizoaffective? Can anyone help me figure out what my diagnosis means? The only way. Ive heard it described to me is its like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder had a little baby. Can someone explain that further?
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The way that it's been explained to me. Schizoaffective Disorder is when a person has prominent elements of a mood disorder such as clinical depression or bipolar. Along with prominent elements of schizophrenia.
Schizo stands for schizophrenia and affective stands for mood.
Some people with Bipolar have at least one episode with psychotic features. This doesn't automatically mean that they have schizoaffective disorder.
I hope this helps.