Psychotic disorders - Schizoaffective & Schizophreniform disorder

In the description below a stereotype is used to give you an idea of the disorder. However, not all people who have this disorder display all these characteristics, and not all people have these characteristics to the same degree.

Description

These two disorder are very similar to schizophrenia, only the problems are less severe. Only some of the characteristics of schizophrenia are present, or the symptoms are not present long enough to diagnose schizophrenia.