I was diagnosed as sz 10 years ago and I’d say it 99% of the time I don’t fully accept my diagnosis. Any ideas for coming to terms with it so I can relax about certain stuff?
IDK, for me at first I thought nothing was wrong with me the first several months. I thought everybody else had the problems, not me.
My parents took me to a shrink and we all talked. Then he had my parents step out and he told me that my parents were really worried about me and that they told him I have bad problems. I actually told the doctor that they were the ones with the problem, not me.
It almost strikes me as funny now but at the time I was serious. So they dropped me back off at the group home and life went on. IDK, how it happened but one day it dawned on me that maybe everybody was right. Maybe my parents, all the doctors, the counselors, the psyche ward nurses, the people who ran the home, maybe they were all right and maybe I really was sick. And I accepted my disease.
IDK how anyone else gains insight or accepts there disease but for me it was as simple as I described, it just came to me one day. And that revelation was the first step in my recovery.
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I think what really solidified it for me was when medication actually helped me and cleared my mind. I was like dang, I was crazy after all. That said i feel no one with psychosis is 100% convinced they have psychosis 100% of the time. That’s just the nature of the illness.
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I think people want to tell me what my real problems are, but they think I’m too sensitive and will just dissociate.
Yeah I find this a sensitive issue. One because there’s a push (because of anosognosia) for patients to accept they have schizophrenia as a sign of good health. Then the thinking is that they will stay on medication and stay well. Makes sense but in my case it came across as overpowering how I was thinking about what was going on, not a dialogue at all. Also, I have gotten the feedback from some professionals that they’re not sure I really have schizophrenia, so all this effort I put into “accepting my diagnosis” seems likes unnecessary pain. Plus, who really wants to accept something like that?
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It took me some months to accept it
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When I said, “real problems,” I mean that I dissociate all the time, not schizophrenia.
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