Hello Phil -- I'm glad to hear that you received some help.

Another thing: the voices are INSIDE my head, not OUTSIDE. My parents think that's irrelevant, I say otherwise.

That proves that I'm not Schizophrenic, I just want to be.

The way I look at it, names are most useful in helping others know what we're talking about, i.e., if I want you to pass me an orange, it's most helpful if we both know and agree on what an "orange" is.

On the other hand, sometimes names don't strike me as useful at all. For example, I didn't have a name for my experience until many months after it had occurred and I think this was very much to my benefit. If someone had said to me, "You have _________ or "You're going through __________ " I might not have looked beyond those parameters for the answers to my questions. That would have limited the kind of answers I might have come up with for myself.

It was because I didn't have a name for that experience that I went searching far and wide. I came up with a whole lot of names in the process.

How important is a name for your experience? I don't know. In some ways, it's important, in others, it's not important at all. Regardless of whatever name could be placed on top of your experience it doesn't change the fact that you're a human being having one. So I think that's a good place to start -- you are first and foremost a human being having an experience that other human beings have also had. There are a lot of names for that kind of experience and according to our personal circumstances, some names "fit" better than others.

Anyway, if you're up to sharing, I'm curious to know why you "want to be" or admire "schizophrenia".