Time? I think it takes time, like a grieving process, you make some gains, and sometimes a few steps backwards, but eventually you come out on the other side, hopefully.

And acceptance of ones self. Everyone with any illness has to go through this as well, cancer, HIV, auto-immune disease. I think what makes it especially tricky is the stigma attached to it. If you can look past the stigma, and the false messages associated with it about who you are and what it means. Then I think you will find yourself a lot closer to acceptance.