SCHIZOPHRENIFORM DISORDER
Schizophreniform Disorder mirrors Schizophrenia with the exception of duration. The duration of symptoms is between one and six months, with a minimum of one month, unless medical intervention is made to curtail symptoms. Schizophreniform Disorder impacts an individual's behavior, cognitions, emotions, perceptions, and interactions with others. The individual struggles to tell reality from non-reality. Symptoms include a combination of delusions, disorganized speech, hallucinations, catatonia or grossly disorganized behavior, and negative symptoms, such as poor personal hygiene, lacking motivation, isolating, limited emotional expression, anhedonia, and avolition. One of the symptoms must be delusions, disorganized speech, or hallucinations. Symptoms cannot be better accounted for by another schizophrenia spectrum or psychotic disorder, ingestion of a substance (e.g. methamphetamine), a depressive or bipolar disorder with psychotic features, or other medical etiology.