not to sound too antipsychiatry, but...

ok, i think often...diagnosis says a lot about the person who is in the position to diagnose. and I also think jumping to Schizophrenia might indicate that this particular psych has power issues and/or is quick to invalidate you...

oh, and...just to be clear: Schizophrenia is, even now, a remarkably large, heterogeneous category. its not quite as crazy as in the 50s, when there were multiple kinds of Schizophrenia and "Schizophrenic-reactions," etc., but...

the category still includes people with very different problems and very different reactions to 'standard treatment,' etc. some progressive nations have scrapped use of Schizophrenia in favor of less stigmatizing labels. and...

its also possible to be intelligent, capable, and deal with what many psychiatrists call Schizophrenia. it just happens to also be an extremely stigmatizing label.

my last, last, last thought...maybe a switch to a female psychiatrist? on the one hand, a psych is a psych is a psych, but...i've had better luck with female pdcos than male ones.