I have had doctors downplay my diagnosis all my life. Some go all out and say I'm faking (a doctor at the hospital said directly at my face that I'm NOT faking but since I don't trust anyone I picked up the report and says "I have a good imagination, got the symptoms from the Internet and its not real." Well, after I read that I got very angry and wanted to die. I didn't see myself as worthy of anything since no one saw the truth or believed me. I have had very few doctors on my side. I have had some that started out on my side and then as time went on suddenly didn't believe me. Some doctors are just jerks. They are idiots. About people saying "If you say you have schizophrenia then you don't have it" is not 100% true. It is because many of them lack insight during a psychotic break, but even then its not 100%. Some retain at least a little insight in which they still believe their delusions and hallucinations but understand it might sound a little odd to people on the outside world. They realize to some extent that its not 100% real. But the ones that lose insight are completely surrounded in their delusions and hallucinations and don't believe anyone else that its not real.