What are your positive and negative symptoms? Does anyone have a professional list so I have something to compare myself to?
For instance, I have created a nice poll before.
From sz.com… symptom over view
Half way down the page…
Positive Symptoms of Schizophrenia
Delusions are firmly held erroneous beliefs due to distortions or exaggerations of reasoning and/or misinterpretations of perceptions or experiences. Delusions of being followed or watched are common, as are beliefs that comments, radio or TV programs, etc., are directing special messages directly to him/her.
Hallucinations are distortions or exaggerations of perception in any of the senses, although auditory hallucinations (“hearing voices” within, distinct from one’s own thoughts) are the most common, followed by visual hallucinations.
Disorganized speech/thinking, also described as “thought disorder” or “loosening of associations,” is a key aspect of schizophrenia. Disorganized thinking is usually assessed primarily based on the person’s speech. Therefore, tangential, loosely associated, or incoherent speech severe enough to substantially impair effective communication is used as an indicator of thought disorder by the DSM-IV.
Grossly disorganized behavior includes difficulty in goal-directed behavior (leading to difficulties in activities in daily living), unpredictable agitation or silliness, social disinhibition, or behaviors that are bizarre to onlookers. Their purposelessness distinguishes them from unusual behavior prompted by delusional beliefs.
Catatonic behaviors are characterized by a marked decrease in reaction to the immediate surrounding environment, sometimes taking the form of motionless and apparent unawareness, rigid or bizarre postures, or aimless excess motor activity.
Other symptoms sometimes present in schizophrenia but not often enough to be definitional alone include affect inappropriate to the situation or stimuli, unusual motor behavior (pacing, rocking), depersonalization, derealization, and somatic preoccupations.
Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia
Affective flattening is the reduction in the range and intensity of emotional expression, including facial expression, voice tone, eye contact, and body language.
Alogia, or poverty of speech, is the lessening of speech fluency and productivity, thought to reflect slowing or blocked thoughts, and often manifested as short, empty replies to questions.
Avolition is the reduction, difficulty, or inability to initiate and persist in goal-directed behavior; it is often mistaken for apparent disinterest. (examples of avolition include: no longer interested in going out and meeting with friends, no longer interested in activities that the person used to show enthusiasm for, no longer interested in much of anything, sitting in the house for many hours a day doing nothing.)
Any current positive symptoms that I experience are pretty much impossible to identify. If I stop thinking a certain way or believing a certain thing, I can look back and say " yeah in the past I had problems believing x,y, and z." But am I currently experiencing paranoia? Am I believing something that isn’t true? How would I know? 
As far as negative symptoms go, I’ve always had trouble labeling something a negative symptom. I feel like the fact that I stay inside all of the time and have issues with cleaning and getting things done is a natural consequence of my positive symptoms and my experiences with being hospitalized and having my life fall apart.
So, in summation, I don’t have an answer to your question. Thanks for reading 
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I have more positive than negative symptoms. The positives include hearing voices, paranoia, poor memory, lack of concentration, and a formal thought disorder, with the final 3 being cognitive deficits. I suffer from paranoia the most of the 3. It continues to pervade my thinking. My negative symptoms are pretty much limited to apathy and occasional isolation.
Please do not give up. That is all I can say.
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Personally… I’m can get pretty deep with the negatives… I hate it… and I’m really afraid of sliding back.
Before the med change… I would slip pretty deep into my head and not speak very much… I’d start to do something and then trail off into inactivity… I was numb to everything… nothing really got my attention… I was very disconnected from the living.
I still had my voices chattering constantly… still saw things that weren’t there…
I would sit very still for many many hours… not able to really get a though completed. The brain wipe was so frustrating. I’d start to talk… and then all the words I was thinking were gone.
I do remember feeling heavy… it took a lot of though and energy to just stand up and move.
I used to welcome some of the positive swings… because then I at least felt something. The sneaky brained thinking felt amazing compared to barely able to think.
The meds got leveled out… and since then… I’ve been getting back into my life. Relearning a lot of things that got erased.
This proves that schizophrenia is one of brain disorder.
Pleased to know that you survived.
I’ve just about stopped hallucinating but it took 10 mg zyprexa and 600 mg seroquel. When off meds or on low doses I get delusions, usually grandiose and spiritual. I get mild paranoia too like thinking my therapist is trying to hurt me and such, and I experience a lot of agitation. As for negative symptoms I am struggling a lot with avolition (poverty of will) and social isolation (trying to improve). Do not have a lot of blunted affect anymore. I have anticipatory anhedonia but not in-the-moment anhedonia. Cognitively I struggle with memory issues, attention issues and poor executive functioning, especially when it comes to planning.