I accepted my illness inmediately, cause I realised that was the only way to recovery, to find stability as soon as posible.
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I knew I was schizophrenic before being diagnosed if I had not felt like dying after taking Risperdal I would have been taking APs two years before ending up in the psych ward.
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I don’t accept mine but am forced by court order to take meds which I grudgingly go.
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In the UK they dont tell you your full diagnosis.
They just say “psychosis”.
I found out when I requested it about 7 years later and they gave me next to no information other than the name.
I didnt understand SZA and SZ are even different things for another few years.
I still havnt fully accept the SZA label. I grapple with it sometimes
That said, I knew there was something mentally wrong going on with me long before I saw a psychiatrist during my psychosis. I think I had a lot more insight to my situation than most people though.
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I was shocked when they told me I had SZ. I thought I had depression or maybe had bipolar and anxiety. I was in the hospital for a long time and they did lots of evaluating me and such so I finally accepted it because of that. But I sometimes still have my doubts (“what if I have depression and anxiety and do not have SZ???” I think that in my head at times. But I try to keep my mind in reality by fact checking. That helps. I see my therapist every week so she helps me fact check).
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