How to cure anosognosia?

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Is there a way to cure anosognosia? I still struggle with it.

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Yeah, IDK. Mine mostly vanished with medication.

I could be wrong, but to me, it seems more like you wish you weren’t sz, than have a lack of insight about it. Maybe a bit of denial because you wish it wasn’t true?

Is that not correct?

I’ve never heard you deny your sz in the past. I don’t remember a single topic about you saying “I’m not sz, I’ve been misdiagnosed!”, or anything like that. Unless of course, you have been keeping this secret doubt hidden from us.

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Yea but isn’t that in itself a bit of anosognosia?

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I dunno. There may be subtle differences. I think wishing something wasn’t true because you are not willing to accept it, would not be the same as being unable to see it, because you just cant. I think denial is a choice, which you can change on your own.

You make a good point though. They are similar.

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I think denial is more of a refusal to see something because it is unpleasant for you, even though deep down you know its true.

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I mean denial in the psychological sense.

" Denial. Denial is a defense mechanism proposed by Anna Freud which involves a refusal to accept reality, thus blocking external events from awareness . If a situation is just too much to handle, the person may respond by refusing to perceive it or by denying that it exist."

https://www.simplypsychology.org/defense-mechanisms.html#:~:text=1.-,Denial,by%20denying%20that%20it%20exist.

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Kind of like how I am in denial that smoking can give me cancer. Deep down I know its a fact but I try to wipe the possibility of it from my conscious mind as I take another drag.

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