what is the specific difference between psychotic depression and schizoaffective and schizophrenia?

Question

I have Psychotic Depression, but I would like to know specifically what is the difference between these disorders. All I can find so far the difference being the insight and depression, but there has to be more to it than that, because if there isnt, it is such a fine line between them. I would like some different insight and information from you all. It would help me a bunch to try to explain it to my skeptical family.

Answer 1

In depression with psychotic features, a person's depression is accompanied by delusions or hallucinations. Often these are filled with self-hate or expectations of being punished. (Delusions are patently absurd or falsifiable thoughts; hallucinations are seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling or otherwise sensing things that are not there.) The primary issue is a depressed mood and the consequent symptoms (poor sleep, appetite, lack of pleasure, low-self-esteem, low sexual drive, suicidal ideation, difficulty concentrating, etc.). Like most depressions, a depressive episode with psychotic features is usually time-limited, and one can usually emerge from the episode to achieve full recovery.

Schizophrenia is a more pure thought disorder that affects about 1% of the US population. It involves extremely disorganized thinking, delusions, hallucinations, social problems, difficulty maintaining employment, and generally poor overall functioning.

Schizoaffective disorder is diagnosed when someone has schizophrenia but with a co-occurring depression or mania.

Most people find that schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder are much more long-lasting, usually life-long. The primary problem with both of them is the thought disorder.

Answer 2

Schizoaffective Depression

Answer 3

Psychotic depression is curable. If you can clear up the depression, you lose the psychotic symptoms. Schizophrenia describes a disease when the victim is experiences one or more of the following: paranoia, dellusions, and hallucinations. It is not curable. Schizoaffective disorder is similar to bipolar disorder. It is also not curable

Answer 4

bipolar is a mood disorder where the person can experience a variation in moods ranging from manic to sever depression. Being in a manic state can manifest as being a friendly outgoing creative person ( many actors actually have bipolar disorders) or sever mania where the person doesn't sleep cannot stay still and may have beliefs such as they are god, the government is after then etc. People in this level of main also may do outlandish things and have no inhibitions. The depression state is well depression the person is down loss of energy, and can lead to suicide. People can go years in one state or be rapid cycling which means at min. 4 cycles a year and could even cycle in the span of a conversation. When given medication people with bipolar disorders can be very stable. Schizophrenia is a disturbance in the thought precess of a person. They can have audio hallucinations where they are hearing voices talking to them. They can also have visual hallucinations where they see things that are not there or both ( a beautiful mind is a great movie to demonstrate the combo of the 2). They can also have delusions of grandure, thinking that they are very important figures such as god or the president. Somatic delusions thinking they are ill or in pain. Another common delusion is thinking that people are out to get them hope this helps

Answer 5

This is a very good blog, a beginner’s guide to abnormal psychology.
Short, clear and simple; and you can even post your question and contact the author regarding particular subject you are interested in

http://sensitive-psychoworld.blogspot.com/

Answer 6

go to this link you can read all about them. http://www.psychologynet.org/dsm.html