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When You're Not Ready to Accept Your Diagnosis

Everyone in my support group talks about acceptance but I'm still angry that this happened to me and feel guilty for not being grateful to be stable.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The therapeutic emphasis on acceptance can create shame about natural grief and anger regarding the loss of one's previous relationship to reality.

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