I have only been on Reddit for a little while, but I’m noticing something pretty wild: people ate seeking out the schizoaffective and schizophrenia diagnoses like it’s some sort of level up. Why would anyone want this? Its misery

And do labels help on a personal level? There is no medication to treat individual disorders. Just medications to treat the cluster of symptoms associated with the diagnosis. 

My care team acknowledges my DID, schizoaffective, etc. but the best thing they do is just focus on treating the symptoms and teaching me how to cope with episodes. 

So once again, why do people WANT these illnesses? Or the labels. Or whatever?