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[aranherb]

I think its a load of crap to go around anouncing you've been diagnosed with sz to people who don't really need to know, I've had more success with less treatment and just being around stable minded people.  Kind of need to be around that kind of person so I can draw off there energy and therefore have a more suitable me and that can adapt to change better.  I've been grouped with people with severe cases of mental illness and you know being around people who have it worse off than than myself only made me more unstable.  Get around some stable people don't announce your baggage and maybe you'll make some progress, if you have somebody in your life who loves you that will help too, and won't just shove their own theories down your throat.  I isolated myself for long enough to not know what was going on outside anymore, than I remembered who I was before all this crap started and you know sz does not define me, even if the treatment team thinks it should.   Makes for less friends and more associates but thats fine with me as long as they are stable, and grounded its a good thing.

[tampaclavin]

I don't even tell some friends about my schizophrenia. Sometimes I tell them I have a mental disorder though. It is none of their business. They should get to know me first instead of put a label on me. I also have family and someone who loves me very much as well in my life. That helps. Just because we suffer from symptoms of sz. doesn't make us any less intelligent and it doesn't mean we all act in the same way either. We are all different people.