so glad to hear that Hope26! its possible to overcome this! In my case it was my parent that was diagnosed so you can imagine how scary and real that was! Another trick that really helped me was a exercise I did. You face the fear by just trying as hard as you can to become schizophrenic for 5-10 min. Just try as hard as you can. I realize how scary that sounds but once I did that it wiped away the last of my fear for good.
Good luck!