If you were diagnosed with schizophrenia by at least 2 different doctors then there’s a good chance that you’re schizophrenic.
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Maybe it’s still the start/prodromal phase of sz
Pretty much. 55555555
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I’m too old to be prodromal. 
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More than 2 to be honest.
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Do you realize a lot of people with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder feel that they are faking it or that there is nothing wrong with them. It’s difficult to get Social Security disability for many. Doesn’t that say something to you that you are receiving it for that diagnosis. It’s not like they hand it out to just anybody.
You are diagnosed and paid as a sz. You aren’t gainfully employed. Presumably because of difficulties in functioning in one way or another. You have unusual thinking. You have suicidal ideation. You refuse to keep your living area clean. And you have an obsessive need for other’s input into understanding and accepting your illness. I’m going to have to say yes you have schizophrenia.
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I’m skeptical that all mental illness falls into the structures and dysfunctions of the diagnostic categories. Theres lots of people who are a little off and they probably have some dopamine disregulation or whatever the cause is, just not enough to cross the threshold into full blown madness.
I find it interesting that you have interest in matters of indirect realism as I have had. My first symptoms of psychosis were solipsistic and later I found out that was one of the most extreme arguments in indirect realism. Im not sure what the relationship to philosophy is in sz whether it is introversion, unusual thoughts, personality, but lots of szs have no interest in philosophy.
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There’s your answer then.
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I’m struggling with the same thing. Wondering whether I really have sz. I have capgras so that sort of convinces me, but I wish I had other evidence. I just tell myself conspiracies are junk, but they still worry me.
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I wasn’t diagnosed with Schizophrenia until my early 40’s
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This sz screening test is not accurate if you are on AP’s and medicated.
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You seem like a cool dude, and I don’t know if you’re schizophrenic or not, but you’re certainly going through some sort of identity crisis. You are always questioning your existence/diagnosis. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Just my 2 cents
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Your North Korean delusion is one of the more elaborate ones I’ve come across on this site and it clearly took years to develop. I’m no doctor but I’d be really shocked to hear a doctor say that you didn’t suffer from some form of psychotic disorder.
I was also diagnosed in my 40s.
I’m not medicated so I can’t be that ill. 
Thank you, I also think my issues are purely existential.
Thats like saying my problems are phenomenological
Well, to be fair problems in themselves are neither phenomenological or unphenomenological. By saying existential I’m making a substantial claim, albeit a very debatable one, about the nature of my problems.
Yes I know but you are referring to a layer of content, a type of discourse, like saying flowers20s problems are merely political and religious. Your ‘existential’ problems take the form of delusions, unwanted and intrusive thoughts, panic attacks of anxiety, etc
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