Posted by Christ_empowered on October 24, 2014, at 13:56:33
In reply to So my diagnosis, supposedly is:, posted by Lamdage22 on October 24, 2014, at 12:02:27
Hmmmm.......I think (I'm no expert, so keep that in mind) that it just means you could get intense depression. Either you have an intense depressive disorder mixed with a psychotic disorder, or they think its primarily a psychotic disorder plus depression.Severe depression is common in schizophrenia. Here in the US, it seems that they've taken the concepts of "schizophrenic depression" and "post-psychotic depression" and lumped them into either some form of schizoaffective OR "negative symptoms." Not surprisingly, there's now research on atypical APs effects on mood and negative symptoms, as well as research on newer ADs for "negative symptoms."
I don't know about things where you live, but here, historically, schizoaffective was sometimes seen as "good outcome schizophrenia." Schizoaffective patients tend to have better long term prognoses. Of course, the poor outcomes tend to be re-diagnosed with "schizophrenia," so...
...yeah. The DSM people periodically revise the criteria for schizoaffective and/or talk about removing it completely...
I dunno. I like how the orthomolecular docs approached schizophrenia. They talked of the "schizophrenias," instead of the various types of Schizophrenia, then the schizoaffective disorders. Say what you will about the mega-vitamin cocktails....their conceptualization of schizophrenia was a lot more nuanced.
Anyway, I suspect you have a good prognosis psychotic disorder with some kind of mood features.
Even in plain ole schizophrenia, mood drugs are commonly prescribed. So...I don't think diagnosis is going to have all that great an effect on the drug part of your treatment.
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