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schizoaffective disorder

Posted: Dec 19, 2014

not sure what board to use. I tried the gab board, but the link did not work.

My 20-year-old daughter was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder. She is a high school dropout (working on that with online classes), trying to get custody of her baby back because she had a psychotic break after baby was born and CPS took her baby away, has had legal troubles because of her psychotic breaks. Its been a roller coaster ride. Just wondering how difficult it would be for her to get SSI with this diagnosis. Any tips, tricks, info would be very appreciated.

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A lot of people with psychiatric disorders get SS disability insurance.

For her sake, she may want to try working, though. I know what schizoaffective disorder is, and with proper medication and therapy, they can lead normal lives. One also has to make sure she's properly diagnosed. There are some crossovers of other psychiatric illnesses, so schizoaffective may be a difficult one to properly diagnose and treat properly.

Often, doctors use condition names for health insurance reasons, too, so be careful of that. They have to call it something that's in the latest DSM.

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