In addition, their self-help group function is very useful for people in getting information on how to get assistance. When followed for many years, they may never have another episode. We spoke a few moments ago about this disease having perhaps several different subtypes within it, and a single episode subgroup may well exist. There are perhaps other subgroups that will also have different courses of illness. There is a concept called schizoaffective disorder, which psychiatrists try not to use but frequently do.
Schizoaffactive disorder seems to combine some features of both disorders.
Also, some individuals with schizophrenia may be prone, just like anyone else in the population, to having clinical depressive episodes. We naturally prefer textbook, classic symptoms in presentations of illnesses, and the schizoaffective because it combines two different features from two different categories of illness. seems to be a compromise. It is frustrating not to be able to cure an illness. It is also frustrating that our treatments are still only for symptoms. I don't mean to sound so pessimistic.