Hello,
Let me tell you the story of my ex-best friend. Lets call him Joe.
So I was friends with the guy from as far as I can remember. We were real close for around thirteen years. However, we matured at far different rates. I matured much quicker whereas he still acted like a little kid even to this day. But this didn't end the friendship. I still wanted to do **** with him and made so much effort. Always asking him if he wanted to hang out and do stuff together but he never made the effort. It was always his house or nothing. Still, I went to his house because of how much I wanted to stay friends. At this point I had begun to lose hope gradually. Then he decided to trust other people over me. People he'd been "friends" with for less than a year. (So much for those thirteen years.) Eventually he told me that he was schizophrenic. I asked him if he'd been diagnosed and he said no, he had not. So I told him it's probably best if he got diagnosed before claiming he was something like schizophrenic. I explained that if he told someone that was diagnosed with schizophrenia, or any kid of disability they would be offended. I also did not want him to live thinking he had something like that as I am pretty heavily physcially disabled and know that it's not nice being so. He didn't like what I was saying. Then he started a BS lie, saying he could hear voices in his head, which he now denies. I had enough of his constant disrespect and way of thinking. The way he treated me as if I couldn't keep a secret and had betrayed his trust, despite doing the complete opposite for thirteen years. So at this point I had enough. We were no longer friends and I still despise him to this day. So when someone asked me if Joe could hear voices I thought "**** it. He doesn't think I can keep a secret, let's do just that. Let make him feel like he made me." (Childish thing for me to do, I know, but I still do not regret it). So I told the gu who asked me the question that he said he could. That he calls the non-existent voice Gemma and that it was complete *******s.
So OP, how would you feel if someone claimed to be schizophrenic without diagnosis?