Question 1

what 's the best treatment for schizoaffective disorder?

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Multidisciplinary: The best treatment is a combination of antipsychotic medications to treat psychotic symptoms and antidepressant medications to improve mood.  Group or individual psychotherapy can be helpful in making goals, solving problems, and maintaining relationships.  Support and work training may be helpful for work skills, money management, and maintaining independence.

Question 2

can saint john's wort be helpful when used for treatment of schizoaffective disorder?

Accepted Answer

No: There are a few medications tat are effective, st. Johns wart is not one of them.

Question 3

what would doctors recommend as treatment for schizoaffective disorder?

Accepted Answer

Depends on symptoms: It depends on what symptoms were being experienced.  If depression predominates then antidepressants, if thought disorder is present then anti psychotic or mood stabilizer.  Anxiety symptoms may also need to be treated.

Question 4

what is the  therapy treatment for schizoaffective disorder?

Accepted Answer

Medications: Schizoaffective disorder can be hard to treat.  Typically, antipsychotic medicatoins are needed to help with the psychosis, and then antidepressants or mood stabilizers or both may be needed to help with the disturbance in mood.  Over time, the specific symptoms may change, and sometimes one class of drugs makes other symptoms worse.

Question 5

what is the  treatment for schizoaffective disorder?

Accepted Answer

Medications: Schizoaffective disorder can be hard to treat.  Typically, antipsychotic medicatoins are needed to help with the psychosis, and then antidepressants or mood stabilizers or both may be needed to help with the disturbance in mood.  Over time, the specific symptoms may change, and sometimes one class of drugs makes other symptoms worse.

Question 6

i need to know anything  about schizoaffective disorder?

Accepted Answer

Check Out Web-site: Schizoaffective disorder is a psychiatric illness that has both disturbances in mood and reality testing.  There are a number of good references with information regarding schizoaffective disorder.  The national institute of mental health has comprehensive information including definition, diagnosis, possible causes, epidemiology, treatment and course of the illness. www.nimh.nih.org.

Question 7

why  medications can be given for schizoaffective disorder?

Accepted Answer

Because they help: Schizoaffective disorder has prominent mood problems as well as psychosis, so several types of medications may be needed--antipsychotics, antidepressants, and mood stabilizers.  They can markedly reduce overall symptoms and improve quality of life when they work but also can produce side effects that can make patients reluctant to stay on the medications.

Question 8

does schizoaffective disorder usually run in families?

Accepted Answer

Yes: Having a close relative with this disorder does increase risk.

Question 9

is schizoaffective disorder considered a serious mental illness?

Accepted Answer

Yes, it's serious: Schizoaffective disorder causes thought disorder,  lack of contact with reality, and unstable mood.  It's less common than schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, but requires the same types of medications:   antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, and others.  Prognosis for return to previous function is better than for other psychotic disorders.  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/pmh0001927/.

Question 10

how possible is it for homicide to occur with someone with schizoaffective disorder?

Accepted Answer

Homicidal ideations: aren't common with Schizoffactive disorder. However, one might be paranoid, have delusions or have auditory hallucinations directing harm toward an other.

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