Title: Can Schizoaffective Disorder Be Caused by Trauma? The Relationship Between PTSD and Psychosis – BrightQuest Treatment Centers
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Can Schizoaffective Disorder Be Caused by Trauma? The Relationship Between PTSD and Psychosis
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Content: PTSD can also trigger psychotic symptoms. Not everyone with the condition will experience them, but studies with veterans indicate that between 30 and 40 percent have hallucinations, delusions, or both. Some experts advocate for a sub-type of PTSD, known as PTSD-SP, or PTSD with secondary psychotic features. Can Schizoaffective Disorder Be Caused by Trauma? There is definitely some overlap between trauma and PTSD and psychosis. No one can currently say, though, that one thing causes another definitively. The more accurate way to describe the relationship is that they are risk factors for each other. There are studies that show the experience of trauma in childhood, whether or not it develops into PTSD, is a risk factor for schizophrenia and psychosis later in life. An extensive review of 27,000 studies has definitively confirmed that trauma puts people at risk for psychotic conditions and symptoms. The researchers looked at three different groups of people: