I cant tell you if you are faking it only you and your treatment professionals can answer that but what I can tell you is that with the right medication and dosage many of my friends that have Schizphrenia live happy and successful lives. it just takes time to find that right medication. And if you are faking it the medication would be making things worse. Kind of like giving a person who does not have ADD ritalin - their attention span gets worse because ritalin on ADD people slows them down But because ritalin is a stimulant (which most if not all people with ADD need) a normal person acts like they have just drank about 10 cups of coffee in less than a half hour. Because normal people don't need the stimulant to correct the chemical imballance in the brain.

Schizophrenia is a chemical imballance of the brain that causes the person to have hallucinations and delusions and so on. so thewy need the medication to correct that imballance.

A normal person without schizophrenia does not have that chemical imballance so giving them medication to correct a chemical imballance that does not exist will throw their normal brain chemicals into being unballanced.

Result the person who is faking it experiences more problems on medication then they claimed they had before taking the medication.

At one point my child was taken off medication to see how much of his problems were medication related and how much was his controlable behavior vs his uncontrolable behavior. He's back on medication because he does better on it then off it.

Hang in there.