Mood disorder plus psychosis equals doing life on hard mode. This code covers the times when your emotional weather and your reality filter both act up. This one lives at the crossroads of mood and psychosis, where the diagnostic flowchart runs out of patience. The hat does not attempt to untangle which symptom belongs to which box. It is for people who contain multitudes, medication schedules and at least three backup plans.

Schizoaffective disorder is diagnosed when symptoms of schizophrenia occur together with prominent mood episodes and neither fully explains the picture alone. The unspecified specifier means exact subtype or pattern is not clearly defined. Schizoaffective disorder combines mood episode criteria with psychotic symptoms in a single framework. From the inside it rarely feels like two distinct conditions and more like one long, complicated battle for stability. The hat offers a shorthand that says "yes, it is complicated" without inviting a debate.