Posted by SLS on September 4, 2016, at 18:24:15
In reply to schizoaffective..., posted by Christ_empowered on September 4, 2016, at 15:54:58
I believe schizoaffective disorder is an illness unto itself. This becomes most obvious with the bipolar subtype. Here, the psychosis is not associated with depression.
I have seen it up close a few times. These people expressed a predictable pattern of affective and cognitive impairments.
normal -> manic -> schizoid psychosis -> depression -> normal.
One person was able to avoid triggering the cycle by using Xanax (alprazolam) to prevent the mania.
Although not currently in vogue here, I believe it is important to identify what disorder you are treating rather than treating individual symptoms. Of course, one must sometimes settle for palliative measures and focus on symptoms when a definitive diagnosis cannot be established.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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