Schizophrenia is a brain disorder that distorts the way a person thinks,
acts, expresses emotions, perceives reality and relates to others. Depression
is an illness that is marked by feelings of sadness, worthlessness or
hopelessness, as well as problems concentrating and remembering details.
Bipolar disorder is characterized by cycling mood changes, including severe
highs (mania) and lows (depression).
Schizoaffective disorder is a life-long illness that can impact all areas of
daily living, including work or school, social contacts and relationships. Most
people with this illness have periodic episodes, called relapses, when their
symptoms surface. While there is no cure for schizoaffective disorder, symptoms
often can be controlled with proper treatment.
What Are the Symptoms of Schizoaffective Disorder?
A person with schizoaffective disorder has severe changes in mood and some
of the psychotic symptoms of schizophrenia, such as hallucinations, delusions
and disorganized thinking. Psychotic symptoms reflect the person's inability to
tell what is real from what is imagined. Symptoms of schizoaffective disorder
may vary greatly from one person to the next and may be mild or severe.
Symptoms of schizoaffective disorder may include:
Depression is an illness that involves the body, mood, and thoughts and affects the way a person eats and sleeps, the way one feels about oneself, and the way one thinks about things. The principal types of depression are major depression, dysthymia, and bipolar disease (also called manic-depressive disease).
Schizophrenia is a disabling brain disorder that may cause hallucinations and delusions and affect a person's ability to communicate and pay attention. Symptoms of psychosis appear in men in their late teens and early 20s and in women in their mid-20s to early 30s. With treatment involving the use of antipsychotic medications and psychosocial treatment, schizophrenia patients can lead rewarding and meaningful lives.
Bipolar disorder (or manic depression) is a mental illness characterized by depression, mania, and severe mood swings. Treatment may incorporate mood stabilizer medications, antidepressants, and psychotherapy.
Psychotic disorders are a group of serious illnesses that affect the mind. Different types of psychotic disorders include schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, schizophreniform disorder, brief psychotic disorder, shared psychotic disorder, delusional disorder, substance-induced psychotic disorder, paraphrenia, and psychotic disorders due to medical conditions.
Mental illness is any disease or condition affecting the brain that influence the way a person thinks, feels, behaves, and/or relates to others. Mental illness is caused by heredity, biology, psychological trauma and environmental stressors.
Factitious disorders are conditions in which people pretend to have physical or mental illnesses when they aren't sick. These people may lie about or fake symptoms to obtain the sympathy and attention given to people who are genuinely ill. Symptoms of factitious disorders include dramatic, inconsistent medical history, the presence of many surgical scars, and a history of seeking treatment at many different hospitals.
Schizophrenia, also sometimes colloquially called split personality disorder, is a
chronic, severe, debilitating mental illness that affects about 1% of
the population, more than 2 million people in the United States alone.
With the sudden onset of severe psychotic symptoms,
the individual is said to be experiencing acute schizophrenia.
Psychotic means
out of touch with reality or unable to separate real from
unreal
experiences.
There is no known single cause of schizophrenia. As
discussed later,
it appears that genetic factors produce a vulnerability to
schizophrenia, with environmental factors contributing to
different
degrees in different individuals.
There are a number of various treatments for schizophrenia.
Given the
complexity of schizophrenia, the major questions about this
disorder (its cause or causes, prevention, and treatment) are unlikely
to be
resolved in th...
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