Basically, yeah, diagnosed schizoaffective a little while ago. But I denied it like crazy, thinking I had bipolar with psychosis instead with some sort of autism spectrum on top of it. Yeah, not much difference at all, but I hate the schiz label. One nurse tried to tell me it didn't mean I had schizophrenia, but everything I have read says it does.

Both my parents had p schiz. And not nice things were said about them. It's like one of the worse labels you can have in public opinion.

But I went to do a university study looking for schiz or schiza people. They went over my symptoms. Instead of saying "sorry, but you were misdiagnosed and you can't participate", they were like "welcome to the study!"

I know I could be worse, I live on my own because of my medications, but I still stand out in a crowd of people... though that could be my own paranoid tendencies.

But each person is different with this dx. I know someone else with the same dx and he acts quite a bit different than me and has more obvious symptoms, while another girl I used to know who was also schiza I couldn't tell and she also lived alone.

I just can't get over it, any suggestions?