Some people take it very seriously.
Either wanting a different diagnosis or not wanting to change your diagnosis.
Isn’t it mostly about symptoms?
I don’t see why it matters.
Does it?
I’m not trying to be a jerk,
Honest question.
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Honestly I don’t really care too much about the label, but it definitely makes it easier to talk to others about my problems when the problems have a label.
For example trying to explain DID experiences without using the DID label is honestly a nightmare
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For a lot of buerocratic (spelling?) stuff a specific diagnosis is important
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Might be the Aspie side of me. I label everything very carefully, including myself. I even own three label printers.
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It did matter to me in the beginning.
Now not at all
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My current psychiatrist and nurse only know me since I have been doing very well. They say things like ‘you don’t look schizophrenic to me’ and prefer to use terms like ‘sensitivity to psychosis’ - which is a made up euphemism to combat stigma in my country. I don’t like sugar coating things and prefer to call things as they are. The euphemism seems to me to downplay my worst times.
In reddit they’ll say you fake it cause they know better. I’m not saying there aren’t fakers though.
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each illness has a label,
sz/sza is an umbrella term, I guess we are lobbed together even though we haven’t the same symptoms some recover some don’t, but the label still stands
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Yeah some reddits can be super messed up about that. I know there are some just dedicated to “cringe” DID content and honestly it makes me so tired
I’m sure there are people that fake it but honestly I just try to take people at face value. Cause if they say they have it or any other condition like who am I to say they don’t?? And even if they are faking that’s on them to sort out lol.
I wish less people would be obsessed with finding “fakers” though it makes it real hard to find support
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It’s important to me to have a name to file all the symptoms under. It does make it easier to explain it to people, because they can just Google sza. So can we, to find out new information as it comes out from research.
It’s also helpful to have a ready name to give people when they wonder why I am the way I am. I am pretty open about it,so I feel I am helping reduce stigma in my community. I mean, it’s pretty well known I have sza, run the library in my boss’ absence, and am in charge of 25-30 kids for 6 weeks daily. If that doesn’t help reduce local stigma,what would??
And thanks to the ADA we can’t be legally discriminated against. We can get accommodations in work or school if we really need them. Not everyone will need them,but it’s niceto have that option
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I think I wanted an excuse. To do nothing and just exist as easy as I could. My dad won’t allow this in his house.
Its important to me because I get the right treatment but when people ask me why I don’t work I tell them I have Bipolar instead of SZA and its more social acceptable.
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Yeah it makes me paranoid about posting about DID there really. I was reading a comment once about why a person would be faking it and someone wrote one of the signs was having blue hair. I was like fck this shite and left.
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When I was first diagnosed with sza by my pdoc my first answer and fear was, I will be called
schizo
but I know I will have the last laugh toward begrudgers in my home town
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Yeahhhhh that’s unfortunately pretty typical. Like these people who try to find “fakers” literally always pick the dumbest stuff to point at as “evidence” and it’s just so frustrating.
Honestly I’ve gotten more support for my DID here than most other sites lol I wish there was a place where we could talk about DID freely without the judgement and scrutiny
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I used to care too much because of the way ive been treated simply after disclosing a diagnosis and caring too much anout others opinions.
Its whatever now.
Label me whatever you want, it doesnt change who i am or what i experience.
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it matters to me. And I’m sorry I go round in circles about it. I know I do. I just want to know after all these years what makes me so different and not able to fit in. You’re right though it shouldn’t matter.
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I have different thought about my diagnosis. I strongly believe I am schizoaffective as I constantly have symptoms of something or the other daily. I was diagnosed schizoid and also bipolar separately. My medications also suggest the same. I have consulted few pdocs. Whenever I got affected and visited pdoc the diagnosis was different each time as I did not visit constantly and take medicine constantly I had to suffer irregularities in meeting docs and explaining about my condition. I got weak sense of forecast and goal setting.
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It took me twenty years to accept the diagnosis anc call myself schizophrenic.
For about twenty years i had been diagnosed schizophrenic but i thought they were torturing me and covering it up by calling me schizophrenic.
Been diagnosed about 26 years now.
Only last six years or so i have said ok I’m schizophrenic.
It has a lot of stigma and can make people look down at you and disrespect you specially if you don’t work.
But it explains symptoms and can be given good medication and disability pension.
That’s good.
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The label confers an air of the inscrutable and uncanny. As for medical science we’re dealing with something akin to the aether