At what age you were dz? Poll

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  • 0-18
  • 18-24
  • 24-35
  • 35-50
  • 50+

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I was hospitalised at 18 after two years of living in hell, and dx with a psychotic episode.
One year later, the same story…
Two years later the same story…

Now my pdoc want to hospitalise me again for a new dz because that the only way I can get a new dz and maybe better treatment

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I just ignored my first psychotic episode… and went ahead…!!! I am 32 now … but my diagnosed is still lingering…!!

I have lot of cognitive and negative symptoms without positive symptoms. . Holy ■■■■ …

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I was diagnosed at age 21 (1985). However I was removed from class in the 2nd grade and sent to the school nurse because my teacher said that I was aloof (1972).

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First went in hospital age 18 and diagnosed schizophrenia had positive symptoms and negative symptoms also

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Diagnose at age 23 i might have had it since 16 but my symptoms didnt show really or flare up till 23

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  1. I’m 34 now :\
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  1. I waited nearly three years to get help.
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In was in such a bad shape I thought it was normal

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I was 18.33 when I got my first diagnosis although I’d been seeing a pdoc for about 18 months, so I opted for 18-24.

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My avatar didn’t show up on the poll but I was diagnosed with sza when I was 34 years old. Before that it was bipolar. Before that it was major depression, recurrent and severe.

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I was 35 when I became full blown psychotic…I was prodromal for the three years before that…

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27 years old… 151515151

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I was 21.
I’d fought for a diagnosis in Norway and got nowhere. Then I moved to Denmark and got a diagnosis within a few months.

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I was 20 or 21 years old, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
I was placed on Navane, a powerful typical AP.

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I was around 12 years old when I was diagnosed with schizophrenia. I started having symptoms when I was around 10 or 11.

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I don’t have a diagnosis, but I had my psychotic break at 32 years old. I didn’t start taking risperidone until about a year later.

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I saw a woman at the hospital that was first dz at 60 years old.

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First episode psychosis at 27, initiating treatment with risperidone, 3 days later of the onset.
Don’t have no diagnosis, after 4 months.

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I was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2011 when I was 23-24 then in 2012 I was diagnosed with schizoaffective bipolar type with ptsd

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