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Schizoaffective disorder is a mental condition that causes both psychosis and mood problems. Psychosis means a person has a loss of contact with reality and may have hallucinations (hearing voices or seeing things that are not present) and delusions (false, fixed beliefs). Mood disorder problems may include a very bad or very good mood with sleep disturbances, changes in energy and appetite, disrupted concentration, and poor daily function.
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One of the most challenging mental disorders to identify accurately and treat appropriately is schizoaffective disorder. This condition involves both psychotic symptoms and conspicuous, long-enduring, severe symptoms of mood disorder.
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Understanding Schizoaffective DisorderSchizoaffective disorder is a serious and puzzling brain disorder. It combines symptoms of two other disorders—bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
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Schizoaffective disorder is a mental illness that shares the psychotic symptoms of schizophrenia and the mood disturbances of depression or bipolar disorder . The term schizoaffective disorder was first used in the 1930s to describe patients with acute psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions along with disturbed mood.
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