If the negative symptoms (as well as the positive symptoms) won't go away and there's no cure for schizophrenia, and stress is big no no for people with the diagnosis, then why do people think it helps us to force more stress on us by making us organize better and want us to socialize more and more?

Organizing has its benefits, but my case manager is a list freak. She herself makes a list of things she has to do everyday, which is ok, but she includes brushing teeth/showering/taking medicine/etc.. when I already can do all that stuff without a list. And she knows I can do those things. But the one thing I have stress doing is creating trivial lists like these.

Social life is critical, but I feel like if I'm invited to a busy social bar with loud conversations from all over the room I'll just end up leaving anyway. And it's caused me more stress.

It's like, leave me alone because I am tired of stigma and stress. If people would willingly educate themselves on symptoms they wouldn't make you feel so stupid and cold and insensitive by their remarks when I'm stressed from a social situation, for instance. We all have computer access now, with internet, and no one should say, "I don't know that much about schizophrenia." Because the only reason why they don't look it up is because they either don't care about you or they care but they don't believe you really have a problem with symptoms.