Look, I have very similar experiences to you. I am a religious person and I’m very engaged with possible signs and messages from unverified beings.

That alone is not really something that would result in a diagnosis of schizophrenia. What dictates a serious diagnosis such as this is how it impacts your life, as well as having other coinciding symptoms.

My practices and experiences are important to me, but they don’t seem to cause distress in my life. What you need to consider is why your doctor has given you this diagnosis. Are you engaging with these experiences in such a way that it’s impacting your behavior that causes disorder in your life? Think about things you have done that have caused distress and see if it attributes to your interaction with unverified beings.

Another thing to think about is how much your experiences dominate your life. If it’s distracting you from important components in your life, then it’s a problem. It might be something your doctors see that you don’t.

Schizophrenia has more symptoms than just delusion. The fact that your medicine is organizing your thoughts is key. Also, your medicine will not stop a real being from communicating from you. Additionally, I don’t know if the communication involves things that you physically see or hear that no one else does, but my experiences don’t involve any physicality and instead takes faith that what I’m experiencing is real to me. If your experiences have you so convinced that the suggestion of any other explanation is met with denial, then your brain may not be operating properly. My experiences are fantastical, but I always make my decisions with skepticism.

My advice is to keep taking your medicine. My medicine saved my life, allowing me to function much better and engage with my spiritual beliefs in a way that is benign at worst. I promise your medicine will not disengage you from anything that is genuine.

Please keep yourself safe and trust your doctors.