Do you experienced large numbers of coincidences in your life? If yes, were you diagnosed with mental illness, especially schizophrenia?
I experienced many coincidences in my life. I almost had not coincidences before IX 2014. About 19.09.2014 coincidences “exploded”. About four months after the beginning of that phenomenon I was first time in my life diagnosed with schizotypal disorder (27.1.2015), F21 in ICD-10. I received that diagnosis two or three times later in 2015. In first half of 2016 I was diagnosed with (paranoid) schizophrenia (F20, F20.0) - I think that it was due to multiple coincidences, but in VI 2016 my diagnosis was schizotypal disorder again and remained so for more than two years. I am also diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder now.
I’m curious about the prevalence of multiple, excessive coincidences. I thought about my coincidences a lot. I might have ideas that I am divine messenger for the world because of my numerous synchronicities. Above four years later that phenomenon was not present. I had some ideas of reference associated with meteorite, satellite or something other suddenly falling from the sky last day before my first day in school (31.08.1997), I had fear of asteroids or similar before that event, if I remember it well. Another ideas of reference might be associated with road accidents which happened near my home in which nobody was even wounded despite the fact that accidents looked really dangerous - the idea of delusion is that it was due to my good influence or something similar.
I think that there could be a book written about my coincidences. I have no typical schizophrenia symptoms like delusions and hallucinations (which were present only sporadically and in simple form). I get olanzapine (10 mg at evening) and sulpiride (200 mg at morning) now.
I am quite religious person. I am afraid of painful punishment, especially after death. I am from Central Europe, not from English-speaking country.
The coincidences started from me in about 2011. Maybe that’s when I started realizing them at least. That’s also when I start believing God. It’s also when I start believing I was the chosen one. But meds help stabilize me I don’t believe it anymore
Delusion . … Delusions of reference – A neutral event is believed to have a special and personal meaning. For example, a person with schizophrenia might believe a billboard or a celebrity is sending a message meant specifically for them.
When I had a facebook rant I randomly posted “is the Turkish prime minister asleep” and then 5 months later at the mental hospital I saw on the news bottom info ticker on the TV that the former Turkish president had died in his sleep at age 90. This made me think I was a psychic.
It’s just a coincidence. I also had one where I redownloaded a song I hadn’t listened to in ten years, and then played an online game that night where someone quoted the song directly.
I hallucinated an argument between my CSB bus driver and some guy, and a week later she was let go for some reason we weren’t allowed to know.
These visions were coincidences. So many things happen every day that eventually some coincidences are going to occur. I assumed I was psychic and went on a very damaging year long episode in which I totaled my truck. Losing my vehicle was a horrible setback.
Now when one happens I’m like, neat, punchbuggy blue. I give it no more thought and life goes on.
i get this all the time i have had numerous people tell me that i have came into there establishment before and say they know me. even though i have never been there before in my life. also had a lady cashier say my name and i have been to this IGA before but i have never told them my name or do they know me personally
Hello. I am from Greece. I currently take 30mg abilify and 60mg haldol and 60mg zyprexa. I believe in coincidences, that they have meaning. Everything is a symbol having meaning, if you have eyes to see. I also was diagnosed schizotypal before schizophrenia diagnosis
Were you diagnosed with schizophrenia, especially due to these coincidences? Do you experienced coincidences before 2011? Did the coincidences start suddenly in your case? (I would say that my coincidences started rather suddenly).
In my case at day hospital and after visit in professional hospital the doctor(s) concluded that I have schizotypal disorder, not schizophrenia. It was at the beginning of 2017. I do not experience hallucinations and reject ideas of messengership delusions because I do not want to sin (for example due to pride or disobedience).
I am interesting how rare are my coincidences. I wrote in notebooks about them quite often. For example, I received big coincidence 18.12.2015 when I wrote about coincidences from 22.09.2014 in quite thick notebook. Exactly five weeks earlier, 13.11.2015, I heard about Tesla 3, 6, 9 first time and the main coincidence of 18.12.2015 was associated with “Tesla’s arithmetic sequence” - 3, 6, 9.
I was actually already diagnosed schizoaffective before the coincidences started (only for about a year though) and I never had the coincidences until 2011.
When my coincidences started, I had no diagnosis of schizophrenia, schizoaffective or even schizotypal disorder, I earlier received only Asperger’s syndrome diagnosis and (or) OCD diagnosis. I also would say that I had no coincidences before their onset in IX 2014. At first visit with the psychiatrist after start of the coincidences (21.10.2014) I was still not diagnosed even with F21. F21 diagnosis appeared more than three months later, 27.1.2015.
Did you tell the psychiatrist about your coincidences? If yes, what he or she said? That they were symptoms of psychosis?
Not sure if it’s the meds but I use to get this a lot. Just like in the movie a beautiful mind our minds can make us see coincidences that aren’t really there. For example John Nash made up broke code that really wasn’t there.
I found interesting topic in the Internet (on a Reddit page). Author of it writes:
For me it does not look as the result of mere mathematical chance or symptom of schizophrenia or schizotypal disorder, but like genuine supernatural phenomenon. 15-20 coincidences per day is really much - before the onset of my multiple coincidences I had only about one per six months or maybe even year.
I used to be thinking or doing very specific things and then they would say it on TV. One day I was hanging soundproof drywall. I finished and turned on always Sunny on TV. Five mins later they mentioned soundproof drywall. Always Sunny is not a construction show.this used to happen alot eight years ago, I thought it proved I was living in a dream and everything was created by my own mind
I may have similar ideas… They are bad ideas. It looks really bad, psychotic.
What are (another) examples of your coincidences?
One of my largest coincidences is associated with codes of mental disorders which diagnoses I received - F21, F42.2, F84.5. I received them first time in my life together 28.4.2015. In the codes there are numbers 21, 42, 84. These numbers form a geometrical sequence with peculiar properties:
the sequence 21, 42, 84 read backwards form a geometrical sequence (GS) with sum 84: 48, 24, 12,
first digits of 21, 42, 84 form a GS: 2, 4, 8 (sum 14),
second digits of 21, 42, 84 form a GS: 1, 2, 4 (sum 7),
sums of digits in numbers forming 21, 42, 84 sequence form a GS with sum 21: 3, 6, 12,
differences of digits in numbers forming 21, 42, 84 sequence form a GS: (2-1), (4-2), (8-4) → 1, 2, 4 (sum 7),
products of digits forming 21, 42, 84 form a GS with sum 42: (2x1), (4x2), (8x4)–> 2, 8, 32,
quotients of digits forming 21, 42, 84 form a constant GS: (2:1), (4:2), (8:4) → 2, 2, 2 (sum 6).
I wonder if someone else was diagnosed with a pervasive developmental disorder (especially Asperger’s syndrome), OCD (especially mixed form of that) and schizotypal disorder due to ICD-10 at the same time.
I read about a woman who was diagnosed with Asperger’s, OCD and schizotypal when she was only 13. She was probably from USA, so she might be diagnosed with conditions from DSM, not ICD-10. So she might not receive “combo” of F84, F42 and F21.