Replacing schizophrenia with atomized symptom lists would dissolve the shared identity scaffolding that grounds patient communities, peer support networks, and lived-experience advocacy.

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Atomized(describing how symptoms might be separated from each other): Broken down into small, separate, disconnected pieces rather than kept together as a unified whole.
Identity scaffolding(as the organizational structure that holds communities together): The framework or structure that helps people understand who they are—in this case, how a shared diagnosis helps people make sense of their experience and their place in a community.
Lived-experience advocacy(as activism grounded in personal experience with a condition): When people who have personally experienced something (like a mental health condition) speak up and fight for change based on what they've actually gone through.
Patient communities(as social groups that could be affected by diagnostic changes): Groups of people who share the same condition or diagnosis and connect with each other based on that shared experience.

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