CHOICES II-2 - Impediments to Acceptance 1B

Thank-you Robin.  A most interesting blog.

In my early years of SZ , about 25 years ago, I thought I was an agent of God battling the forces of evil.     It started 5 years earlier, when my visual hallucinations convinced me I could see God.      My family thought I was on drugs as I had experimented with them in high school.

My battle of good and evil raged on from age 19 to 45.      I , like yourself at first, resisted treatment time and time again.   Unlike you, I did not find any sympathetic psychiatrists.    Or if they were trying to reach me , I was too far gone.      I denied the illness so many times , in so many treatment centres , I think I would lose count around 35.

I was lucky to come to my senses 5 years ago and see a specialist.

I wonder if there are others of your readers with similar experiences.   It would be interesting to compare notes.

  One thing to mention in Choices maybe would be survival.       How does the individual survive in the world when he/she has denied the illness and has refused treatment ?        What resources (if any ) and options are open to that young person ?

Take care

Don Fraser