How to cope with diagnosis?

Hey. I just got diagnosed with schizophrenia just a couple of months ago, and I find it hard to accept this. Things are blurry and I can´t seem to remember that I am a man in front of the diagnosis. Anyone have any tips on how to cope with being mentally ill, and how not to lose oneself to the illness at the same time?

Cheers

Anyone??

If you want not to lose ourselves to the illness you have to rely only on yourselves but not on medication.Medications can help you endure acute phase but don't expect that they can cure you fully. But you can get used to any symptoms of schizophrenia.
It will not greatly interfere with your life
if you learn to distinguish your normal thoughts and feelings from absurd thoughts and feelings,
if you will not believe voices (everything the voices say you should check out other sources),
if you learn to control your feelings and stay within the normal behavior for any your internal state
if you will not complain to friends and relatives about your problems, these problems must be entirely your personal matter,
if you will not eat a lot of neuroleptics, they reduce the brain's response and hamper normally navigate in the new and very unusual conditions of the body,
and you have to learn to relax, orienting on the level of inner comfort.

Sorry for my English.

thanks for the reply! I do all of those things at the moment, so I guess I just need time to heal the wounds

I think it is very hard for people to cope with the diagnosis, I know it has been hard for me. Everytime the word is presented to me I think I bow my head a bit in shame as a natural reaction. People with this diagnosis are guided to hide said diagnosis to employers and peers. The more you bury what is almost certainly something that has made a very significant impact in your life it will bring shame I think. When I was diagnosed I was happy about it, the diagnosis indicated the terrible things I was experiencing were not real, or could be overcome some how. Still, in time it's common to be ashamed.

You shouldn't be ashamed for suffering, struggling, or even acting out while under the effects of a disease like schizophrenia. It robs many people of years of their lives, and of their prevailing lifestyle as well.

Even still try not to be ashamed of it, even if you assume others will be ashamed of you when they find out what this legitimately significant part of your life is.