Do for you, be for you, or replace you?
In the end, what do you you really want from it?
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It’s just a diagnosis. It does nothing. It’s just for the pdoc orientate himself/herself on how to treat you.
It serves no useful purpose that I can see?
The Sz itself?
Not the label.
Does it really serve no useful purpose?
It’s useful for the pdoc.
What do you use it for?
I sometimes need my label SZ to talk for me when I cannot.
Well I used to be able to have hyper-focus on one thing for a long time. Unfortunately it didn’t typically work on things that would give real world benefit. I read Jurassic Park in a day or two but often couldn’t do homework for more than an hour or two at a time.
These days, I don’t think I have the hyper-focus any more.
I can tell you what it did for me. It took a group of odd/damaging/unexplainable behaviors/traits/experiences and put them in one place with one label that could atleast to some extent be explained and dealt with as a result.
Before my diagnosis I just knew something was wrong with me but had no idea what and so didn’t know what to focus on. Now I can focus on getting to know sz better, and so get to know myself and why I think this way, and do that, and experience these things. It all falls under one umbrella now. It all fits into one box. I’ve found that oddly comforting.
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Da-ding!
@Hedgehog explained it for me.
I just realized it really is more than just a label for me.
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I just wanted help. I went through hell. I was suffering deeply. I was traumatized. I was suicidal. If I hadn’t gotten help I wouldn’t be alive today.
I think schizophrenia has empowered me to become a better nurse as soon as I’m done with school.
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My Dx got me to think clearly about my entire life and what was mine to own and what wasn’t. I feel much more clear on that. It didn’t help much else, though. What it did TO me was encourage me to fantasize about a reality that will likely never be where people and the world are much kinder.
sza has done nothing for me, just one last proof I am failure
You’re not a failure @cbbrown, don’t say things like that, you sound like your in-laws have gotten you to take over their evil work.
You are a kind soul, who loves animals, and puts up with far more evil and hatred than you should.
One day when those “out-law” in-laws are far enough away, you’ll shine like you were meant to do, and life will be good to you.
Keep up your spirit, I’m rooting for you!