Yes, after I was diagnosed at age 19 it only took me about two or three months and I was living in a house for schizophrenics to realize my parents and my psychiatrist were right and I was schizophrenic. A decade later I ran into a problem that I see crop up on here every now and then and I thought I was faking the whole thing. It didn’t make me want to quit my meds and it didn’t last long but yeah, I fully accept it now.
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As long as you don’t off yourself you can live as long as anybody else. The suicide statistic is what drags down our life expectancy. I’m 100% sure I’m not gonna off myself so I disregard the lower life expectancy entirely.
And yes I accept that I have it, and I take medicine for it.
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Unfortunately, living a sedentary lifestyle and being overweight, especially in combination can cause many health problems that can shorten your life. And also unfortunately, many schizophrenics are both those things. But it’s all about choices, you can choose to eat healthy and choose to be active and healthy and lose weight which will probably prolong your life.
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I’ve accepted it. And that helps me
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Everyone (including the psychiatrists)on this planet has Sz more or less for a period of time or for his life long.
In short, no.
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Yes, I do…
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I still can’t believe that I have schizophrenia. I have had it since I was 19 years old. And I try to admit it since the beginning.
I have to somehow learn to accept the hell I went through too
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I accept it, im always gonna be curious as to what is actually going on in my brain
For many years I didn’t believe the pdocs but after I began a symptoms journal I was able to gain insight so now I believe my diagnosis.
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