Sammie Arnold Carvey has the major symptoms of schizophrenia but she does not meet full criteria for any of the disorders in the schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders diagnostic class. How would you list her diagnosis?

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The best way is to list her diagnosis is to place it under; other psychotic disorders and under  other  schizophrenia spectrum. Since the  manifestation of this disorder did not meet the full criteria, it  better to place her diagnosis under broad schizophrenic spectrum,  in relevance to other psychotic disorders

This classification   is applicable when  symptoms of a disease produces a notable distress in a patient, but failed to meet the any of the full  DSM-5 criteria for schizophrenia listed in the schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders.

it is also applicable when the  medical subject can not discern  why the symptoms does not meet the  full criteria; or when relevant data are lacking  for further diagnosis.

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