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🧠 With mood and psychosis 🧠 A mental disorder
schizoaffective

schizoaffective

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Relating to a mental illness that causes mood swings and loss of contact with reality
  • adjective
  • /ˌskɪtsoʊəˈfɛktɪv/
  • Specialized
: esquizoafectivo
  • The doctor explained that schizoaffective disorder involves a mixture of schizophrenia and mood disorders.
  • schizoaffective disorder

Examples

  • SMI encompasses patients who suffer from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and schizoaffective disorder.

    Academic text (2015)

  • My husband is bipolar and schizoaffective.

    Blog text (32)

  • I have this thing called schizoaffective disorder.

    Academic text (2005)

  • She... she diagnosed me as schizoaffective.

    V/H/S (2012)

  • The next patient is a 29-year-old female diagnosed with acute schizoaffective disorder.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • I live with schizoaffective disorder, formerly diagnosed as schizophrenia.

    Blog text (8)

  • Teresa Sheehan was a fifty-six-year-old woman with schizoaffective disorder.

    Academic text (2017)

  • I am a writer/artist who suffers from schizoaffective disorder (bipolar + schizophrenia).

    Blog text (25)

  • I live with Schizoaffective Disorder, formerly diagnosed as Schizophrenia, as well as Sjogren's Syndrome, an autoimmune disease, and Fibromyalgia.

    Blog text (8)

  • Rebecca was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, which includes both mood fluctuations and psychotic symptoms.

Surface Forms

schizoaffective positive

Morphology

schizoaffective = schizo + affective (semi-transparent) = schizo + affective

The components 'schizo' and 'affective' are clear, but the specific meaning relating to a mental disorder is specialized.

Etymology

Schizoaffective comes from two parts: schizo meaning 'split' and affective from affect meaning 'emotion' or 'feeling'. So the name shows the condition has both a 'split' in thinking or perception, called psychotic symptoms, and problems with mood or 'feelings'.