I was just thankful that there was a caring group of people willing to listen to my problems when I needed someone too. I never cared if they were SZ or not. To me, the labels just don’t matter.
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And sz.com wouldn’t be the ForumLand anymore but only a few ghettos 
Here, I suggest a borderline sub forum. And I guarantee you that within a few days everyone from the sz main forums will join my sub forum and a few grumpy cats will stay alone out there. 
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Should this forum take a narrow schizophrenia and schizoaffective only approach or a broader psychotic/schizophrenia spectrum approach?
I think it was @Wave that posted an article questioning the validity of the sz diagnosis that calls for it being replaced by the label "psychosis spectrum disorder. PSD(for short) would include all psychotic experiences from the mild to the more severe.
I would like to point out that there are those of us without a sz/sz-a dx that still happen to share symptoms with those who do and for whom the diagnosed section is where to share joint experiences.
If someone has been here years with a sz/sz-a diagnosis and has experienced psychosis do you really want them banished because for some reason(psychiatrist’s subjective interpretation?) their diagnosis changes.
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I felt comfortable posting here felt I belonged and was wanted. Now I’m not sure. I sense that some resent the presence of people like me and that is leading me to question whether I should stay or leave.
Alternatively to revert to posting almost exclusively on the news forum which is what I did on the old forums.
At Narcotics Anonymous they’re not that picky about who goes there. You don’t have to be a former junky to attend. Even if you have just smoked a little pot you are welcome there. I don’t understand the need for all this exclusivity.
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Goes a long way toward explaining why so many NA members keep trying to join AA groups while complaining how their program doesn’t work for them.
Pixel.
Here’s the same debate from a year ago.
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I honestly don’t mind if a person is sz, sza or not. We are all here to help each other. I have been help by people on here who don’t share my diagnosis. I’ve seen how psychotic illnesses besides sz or sza effect a person and their family. My brother is bipolar with psychotic features plus adhd and autism. I’ve met people with bipolar, borderline and depression who have had psychotic symptoms and they may not have a schizophrenia diagnosis but they suffer just the same.
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Was that yet another personal attack on yet another forum member?
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I think some here want a gated community of sz/sz-a whilst at the same time they’ll complain about being excluded by mainstream society.
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You have hit the nail on the head @firemonkey.
Stay, please. Little people want you to stay.
“Don’t go @firemonkey! We were just about to chase the kites!” 
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I totally agree with this
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Since my diagnosis went from PS to sza to asd back in april, I restrict my posting to the lounge, creative, and news. That said, I suggested a category called ‘Psychotics’ a long time ago to cover those who have sufferred from other psychotic disorders.
Language/culture barrier. You dont mean to call me sane do u?
A madman is someone whos lost everything but his reason.
@Malvok im guilty of this… ill just post under recovery from now on.
Seconded.
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Lol From when is being called ‘sane’ considered as insult? i dont even know anymore man…Everyone is so sensitive these days…
I didn’t mean anything…language barrier.
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Lol i was just playin its hard to tell over the interbet
I’m following this discussion. I’m not sure about the whole issue of trying to discriminate between the different types of psychotic disorders - given the fluidity of diagnoses and the overlap of symptoms.
And doctors’ are increasingly unlikely to give people a diagnosis of anything other than “psychoses” so as to avoid a label that the person might over-interpret. I strongly suspect that fewer people are getting the diagnosis of “schizophrenia” for the first few years of their work with a psychiatrist because of this.
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