Can Someone With Schizoaffective Disorder Lead A Normal Life With Treatment?
Question submitted May 27, 2002: My wife has been diagnosed with schizoaffective depression. Can you tell me what the long-term prognosis would be for this? Will she be able to go back to work and get on with her life after her treatment is over? CyberShrink’answer posted 5-28-02: The following material is not offered as a diagnosis or a prognosis for a particular person and is intended only for the purpose of providing general information that may be relevant to your question. For a prognosis for your wife, ask the person who made the diagnosis and is treating her. A major depressive episode (or another mood disorder) is typically found, at some time, in the course of a “Schizoaffective Disorder”. During the period of illness there is also a period (which may be as brief as two weeks) of delusions or hallucinations (or both), in which these symptoms occur in the absence of major mood symptoms. At other periods the schizophrenic symptoms (e.g., hallucinations, delusions, speech disturb
