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?

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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