{"id":192450,"date":"2024-07-07T00:23:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T05:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/the-complex-lived-experience-of-schizophrenia-diagnosis-a-thematic-analysis-of-online-forum-posts"},"modified":"2024-07-07T00:23:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T05:23:47","slug":"the-complex-lived-experience-of-schizophrenia-diagnosis-a-thematic-analysis-of-online-forum-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/the-complex-lived-experience-of-schizophrenia-diagnosis-a-thematic-analysis-of-online-forum-posts","title":{"rendered":"The complex lived experience of schizophrenia diagnosis: a thematic analysis of online forum posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-complex-lived-experience-of-schizophrenia-diagnosis-a-thematic-analysis-of-online-forum-posts2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We identified five themes centred on the impact of diagnosis: (i) Denial and acceptance (three sub-themes: Denial of diagnosis; Acceptance of diagnosis; Conflict between denial and acceptance); (ii) Stigma of diagnosis and selective disclosure; (iii) The process of diagnosis, (iv) Losing, maintaining, and finding a sense of the self (two sub-themes: The lost self; Constructing and maintaining a sense of self); and (v) Receiving, finding, and providing support.<\/p>\n<p>Figure <a data-track=\"click\" data-track-label=\"link\" data-track-action=\"figure anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s12144-024-06175-2#Fig1\">1<\/a> shows a created a diagram on the potential connections between the themes and subthemes. The process of diagnosis spans the entire experience and has a bearing on denial, conflict and acceptance. Stigma also feeds into denial, conflict and lack of identity. Acceptance of a diagnosis is heavily based on the experience and process of healthcare services, and through supportive peer spaces that reinforce and maintains a clear sense of self\/identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We identified five themes centred on the impact of diagnosis: (i) Denial and acceptance (three sub-themes: Denial of diagnosis; Acceptance of diagnosis; Conflict between denial and acceptance); (ii) Stigma of diagnosis and selective disclosure; (iii) The process of diagnosis, (iv) Losing, maintaining, and finding a sense of the self (two sub-themes: The lost self; Constructing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}