Is it possible? I remember my cousin abusing me and my brother sexually when we were 5-6y.o. My parents deny that. I developped sz but he didn’t, he doesn’t want to talk about it. I fear talking about it to a psychologist, I feel like I will become suicidal if I talk about it.
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Stress plays a major part for sure. I think we are only scraping the surface of PTSD and how we are affected by the past.
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I really hope not - but I would have check the yes box. And I have never open this box in therapy regarding what happened. Don’t really want to unpack it.
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The anecdotal evidence is clear. Schizophrenics come from trauma too often for it to be coincidental.
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I feel much better after unpacking that baggage. It’s too heavy to carry through your whole life.
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I mean, while I generally agree, and it’s definitely going to make him feel better after he’s actually processed it and talked about it, the during part of definitely a health risk.
Or at least it was for me. And it lasted years. And every time I get a new therapist and have to drudge it back up, I get 
tempted again. Not for long, luckily, but it definitely happens.
If I didn’t have active PTSD symptoms from it, I don’t know that it would be worth going through all that.
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If it doesn’t actively bother you day in and day out then maybe don’t pick that scab. In my case it was like a festering wound that kept me on the edge of rage and any small thing could make me flip my lid. It was like I was hoping for any excuse to lose my ■■■■ and let Mr. Angry rampage, y’know?
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I feel better talking to my therapist about my brothers harassment over me.
It may make you feel better @Aziz
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Totally agree. That was me, too. I didn’t really get it all unpacked, and a lot of it still bothers me, but it’s generally not making me miserable every day, so at this point I feel like opening up about it would be worse.
But that’s pretty much all I was saying. That carrying it is heavy, and unpacking it is great and all kinds of helpful, but if you’re not struggling to walk while carrying right now it’s probably not worth open up that suitcase and letting your dirty underwear spill all over the floor.
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Darn it. Now I’m turned on.
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You aren’t the only forum member who got abused as a child, @Aziz - so that kind of trauma could definitely be part of what causes schizophrenia in some people.
Being suicidal, even mildly, is a sh1tty feeling I know well. But seeing that you had the guts to talk about your abuse here, I am certain you can do it with your therapist too, and he/she is very well equipped to help you recover.
Don’t hold back. Get it off your chest or else it will drag you down forever.
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That’s what I was going to say, but in different words.
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There are number of papers on how trauma is the source of mental illnesses like depression and sz.
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At the very least, if I didn’t have wicked PTSD, my schizophrenia would have been a lot easier to tame.
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I started getting molested at age 2 and I went on to develop both formally diagnosed schizoaffective and dissociative identity disorder. So the correlation is true in my case.
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