You sound like you feel incredibly guilty about how your life has turned out. Can you see a therapist?
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Won't I have to be drugged into a phenothiazine zombie, and thus become unable to hold a job and spend the rest of my now-worthless life droolingly babbling nonsense on the street, in institutions, or while sponging off decent, worthy, productive, hard-working taxpayers by "living" in Section 8 housing (which, here in Cowboy Country, is guaranteed to be a rat-, roach- and bedbug-infested hellhole)?
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Not necessarily. I am on the schizophrenia spectrum myself and I do not fit any of those stereotypes and it sounds like you don't either.
Also, it's very very uncommon for schizophrenia to have a late onset. You're older, if you haven't gotten full-blown psychotic symptoms by now it's unlikely that you will. I'm not saying it's impossible, just that it's unlikely.
Are you having any symptoms of schizophrenia? If so, what symptoms are you having?
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Is there any hope for a PS to fashion a decent life and marriage, or should I cut her loose and resign myself to the horrendous fate above?
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Absolutely. Schizophrenia is not a death sentence. But again, I seriously doubt that you have it. I agree with 8888an8888, self-diagnosing is not a good idea.