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Manic symptoms – increased social, sexual and work activity, rapid thoughts and speech, exaggerated self-esteem, reduced need for sleep, risky behaviours, impulsive behaviours such as spending sprees, quick changes between mood states such as happiness to anger.

Psychotic symptoms – losing touch with reality, hallucinations, delusions, disorganised thoughts, chaotic speech and behaviour, anxiety, apathy, blank facial expression, inability to move.

The symptoms of schizoaffective disorder can include: Diagnosis can be difficult because the symptoms of schizoaffective disorder are so similar to that of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Mental health professionals currently believe that schizoaffective disorder is a kind of schizophrenia.Įstimates suggest that as many as one in 3 people diagnosed with schizophrenia actually have schizoaffective disorder.

Schizoaffective disorder is classified into two subtypes: schizoaffective bipolar type and schizoaffective depressive type. The main types of associated mood disorder include bipolar disorder (characterised by manic episodes or an alternation of manic and depressive episodes) and unipolar disorder (characterised by depressive episodes). Schizoaffective disorder is a combination of two mental illnesses – schizophrenia and a mood disorder.