This was a huge problem for me when I was first diagnosed. I felt like I was being too dramatic and that I was making things up. So I would go off meds, fall again, try a new med, go off, fall again, repeat etc. the first thing that got me to accept the need for meds was when I went psychotic for the first time. It was very scary, thinking that people could read my mind and that people were trying to hurt me. Since then (2014) I have stayed on meds. I didn’t really find the right combo until 2018 but I finally have and have been stable since then, except for a situational episode.

I have a dumbledore quote tattooed on my arm: of course it is in your head, but why on earth does that mean it is not real?