When I finally got my diagnoses it did help me a lot. Finally I understood the difficulties that had seemed so overwhelming, and as Eileen says, that gave me access to services that I need. It even led to me getting the right kind of medicine, so now the quality of my life is much better.

It does make me worry about things like my future on the job market. I worry that when I am filling out disclosure forms I have two choices... lie when they ask if I have any serious health issues that might affect my ability to work, which means if they found out later they could dismiss me, or tell the truth, and not be chosen, because really... the word "schizoaffective" doesn't make me look the most reliable of employees.

But right now I'm getting myself back together... and I think the diagnoses did help with that.