Sure, we are, but nothing is closed about it. We are not our delusions and we are not our other symptoms either. Nobody is no-one and that’s just the truth about it all.
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I am not Sz, but I am SzA. 
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I feel this way too, people aren’t their opinions or thoughts or delusions, they’re just people…
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We sometimes feel un-complete, We are un-complete. We need to be more complete. Are we never gonna get there?
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i literally feel like a chunk of my brain is missing ever since I realized I had sza.
i was manic one time and cursing the hospital staff in the psych ward and they called security (this happened numerous times) but this particular time when they gave me a mixed shot of haldol and ativan it maybe some other calming drug i realized when it kicked in i had a degenerative brain. I had no idea what sza was at the time but somehow this random thought was a fact.
some delusions can be helpful
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my sz consumes me, my life, my behavior and my thoughts. for me, it is not only pre-occupying it defines me. so when i heard elyn saks say we are not schizophrenics we are people with schizophrenia i wondered about it. like where’s the rest of it besides sz?
judy
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I think we can use our delusions for some fantastic creative ideas. The problem is organizing those ideas. As far as identity being separate from our illnesses, I agree, the edges are blurred. How can we tell what’s not sz or sza? I dunno, but I say we make the most of it.
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I wonder what all makes up a person?
50% heredity and 50% environment (nature/nurture). We know that IQ and temperament are genetic.
As for living with a terrible disease, maybe I’m dense, but it seems like something I can live with. It’s only frustrating when it gets in the way of completing a task that without the illness would turn out brilliant. I remember the papers I wrote in college. Toward the time I dropped out, it was a terrible struggle to write something like a research paper. I managed to go back and graduate, but man, tho I’d love to go back and get an adv degree, I’d have to sweat blood to get my brain together. Hi-de-ho…
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