Did anyone else go to high school with Schizophrenia? It’s the most annoying and hard things I’ve ever done. Of course I’m on meds and that helps. Without them I wouldn’t be there, anyway I was just wondering
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No, but I dropped out of university because of it.
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I started having hallucinations and delusions at age 14, but I wasn’t properly diagnosed until 25. It sucked really bad, but I swear it gets better. For one thing, psych meds become much more consistently effective after you finish puberty. For another, people get nicer after high school, and you start to have more control over your life.
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I did, but the shrinks wrote it off as ADHD and never bothered to dig deeper.
The ADHD meds did nothing except give me tics I still have, 14 years later.
It was really hard, and I felt misplaced and misunderstood.
As Ninjastar said, it gets better after high-school because people tend to mature and be nicer.
Yes
I was on the way to A levels (3 was the norm to take) possible ABB
i got 2 C’s
it was the most difficult thing ever other than possibly being bullied at the previous school was probably just as bad with binge eating disorder autism and no friends
i became unwell after a year of taking my first acid trip
i was 15
I stopped using any for my last year of GCSE’s for 4 months to get the exams out of the way then everything went to hell
age 17 / 18
i am not clear
i don’t know when my hospital stay was but i think it was between year 1 and 2 of a levels (age 16 - 18)
14 school … bullied, stuffing my face with chocolate stealing self injuring drinking
17 18 school… 1h on London underground each way with telepathy, at night each time i had a spliff - every other evening nights under the covers creeping to the window to spot the ravers plotting against me
secret cameras in my room, monitored by the government
joints smoked at lunch
revised the wrong year for maths (which i couldn’t do a second yr in 5 weeks) (and then i could nt remember the maths of the year i had done with others)
and comprehending less and less
actually if this sounds more fun o it wasn’t
I first had hallucinations at 16/17. I had delusions, grandiosity and a fantasy world at 14-15. High school wasn’t fun but I was too delusional to know what was really going on. I didn’t get on meds till later though.
Academic wise—-I wasn’t a very good student. No interests really outside music and watching sports.
It was hard.
But what I would pay to go back in time and give myself the amount of insight that you have?? I think it’s a great advantage if you can get insight earlier than later. Good luck with everything.
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What? You sound like a wild child.
how much of this was mental illness?
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my family was me the schizophrenic sensible one, always home on time i said i would be, studied, autistic
the wild schizophrenic literally took hundreds of e’s and acid middle sister dyslexic
and the secretly wild 12 year old youngest fully gothic in 80’s style dyslexic
i was a metal head who turned hippie and we all looked probably quite out there during summer holidays in the daytime
the telepathy and secret cameras and all the voices and government and ravers plotting against me were not real
you must be young because autistic spectrum wasn’t known in the 80’s, but if you were then later into the metal era, you would have been been into metal like ACDC, Black Sabbath, and Judas Priest. I’m glad you determined that gov isn’t against you, but it can take a lifetime.
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xx sorry Daze i change my name a lot
I’m not new
trying to fully get away from any nic my sister might know
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i was into guns and roses, metallica, helloween, skid row, poison, and anything similar all the bon jovi type of stuff too
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sorry thread hijack
yep, all those, they’re light now, considering, but I love 'em. Did you ever get into Def Leapord or Twisted Sister, or the band that sings 18 and Life you Got it!
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think 18 and life was Skid Row
yes all seems ridiculously light
the heavier stuff which is absolutely mental, isn’t it?
for me it took a while to get
don’t listen to it but like it more than ages ago
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yeah, Alice in Chains, the Sick Puppies, Disturbed, and Rise Against.
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I’m not too current on the new bands, I don’t get 'em anymore.
I’m clueless, but if i hear something heavy i would have hated it back then, think it’s quite good now
I got sick when my choir teacher died in 8th grade (I started to have internal voices and my intrusive thoughts got worse). Then when it got time to go to 9th grade I lost it. I was in the crisis counsellor’s office every day complaining of intrusive thoughts and fear. I had to stay home for a year on a medical pass. I was okay for a year and a half on just antidepressants even though I still had voices. Then last December, during my senior year of high school, I lost it again, this time with voices that sounded like they were in my ears and with delusions. Were it not for the kindness and understanding of the school’s faculty I wouldn’t have graduated.
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homeschooled while I helped take care of my grandmother with cancer, no friends or real social life to speak of.
I can’t imagine being able to do high school, I was young, new to my hallucinations and delusions, and unmedicated.
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Thanks god
I hvnt any kind of mental issue in high school but i was harrassing sexually but it didnt affect my study years later
In 2nd year of university i talked to person on net from military forum i got voices afterthat
They still with alittle bit easier than in the bignning
I was 20 when the voices begin now i am 28 