When I was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder at 17, all I really knew about schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder were stories from movies, the 30 minutes we talked about it in my high school psychology class and the stereotype.
I didn’t realize how much I didn’t know until it happened to me. Nobody told me about the cognitive issues. I was completely unprepared for the cognitive deficits that go along with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder.
As an honor student who always got high grades without studying much, if at all, it was like a slap across my face. I didn’t understand why I had trouble memorizing things.
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