I was diagnosed with schizophrenia 2 years after my first psychotic episode. I didn’t want to believe it. Then 3 years later I started keeping a journal. After about 4 years I would read what I wrote in the past and some of it made no sense. It was then I realized life would get better if I just accept my illness and treat it appropriately. Now today I am not in denial of my schizophrenia and I make all my doctor appointments and take my meds as prescribed. How long and how did you finally accept your illness?
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I don’t accept my illness but I take my meds because I accept getting unwell.
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About 4 years for me, it runs strongly in my family so id seen it since i was a little kid.
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I accepted all my diagnoses immediately: severe, recurrent depression, bipolar 1, and schizoaffective bipolar type. And, I was compliant with meds for the most part, except for two or three times I went off of them, on my own, in order to regain my sexual function. That never worked out for me, of course.
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It took me a long time to accept my diagnosis of schizophrenia. At least a few years. I knew something was wrong with my mind but I didn’t think it was schizophrenia until I started reading more about it and saw I had most of the symptoms.
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Acknowledge that I have sz, yes. I did that very early.
But I don’t let it bring me down.
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It took about 7 years.
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I had delusions that my illness was the result of spiritual powers so I don’t know when I accepted it. I wouldn’t have accepted medicine if I’d known they were called antipsychotics because of the word psycho. I was treated with a major tranquilizer called melleril.
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Still in accepting phase… Every time i say oh ok this is what sz is and bam something new comes up…
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Several years. Is only when I stopped working did I fully embrace this is who I am.
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Thank you all for replying. I appreciate reading your experiences. I know this condition presents itself differently for everyone. I hope you all can find peace and get through whatever struggles you may be experiencing.
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It took me about three months after moving into Soteria, the house for schizophrenics. You would have thought I would’ve guessed sooner since I was living in a house for schizophrenics, lol.
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I’m getting closer to accepting it.
Since 2016 when I had first psychosis.
I always used to think I can come off the meds but now I’m leaning to maybe no.
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It took me twenty years to accept my diagnosis.
I believed the voices and delusions were real.
Today I even believe there may be some truth to some of them.
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I think it took a year for me to accept my illness.
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I accepted defeat with this schizophrenia. But my father and some others wont accept it defeating me. I have more confidence and hope now to go on with my life with a purpose that I realize is to come from me and my effort to continue to accomplish in life.
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If there were no stupid nosy bigots labeling everything trying to make you believe you are not an animal you’d be the animal that you are.
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it took me three times in the hospital and finally coming out of psychosis in a state mental hospital before I accepted that I had sz. it was getting over losing my career in architecture that was hardest to accept…it was no fun in the beginning…fun now.
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I got it at 22, ive accepted it around 25/26 ish. 27 now. Still tryna get back into work.
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It took me some time to get over the shock having sz, but i can’t remember how long.
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