I had SZ symptoms since I was a teenager. I was diagnosed at 21-22 y.o.
I always thought someone was following me in my house to kill me. I often looked at my back to find nothing. I also started to self isolate by not talking to friends. My friends rang on my door but I told my mother to tell them that I am sleeping. They stopped coming eventually.
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I started getting clumsy and having social issues around 4-6 grade.
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I probably had SZ symptoms since I was born but I can’t remember that.
I knew in my late teens things were going to â– â– â– â– .
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Yes, when I was alone in my house, especially at my dad’s, I was paranoid and feared for my life!
The forum becomes quiet after 10pm eastern time. Its now 11:15pm here in Canada.
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I first developed severe Depression, and had some psychotic symptoms associated with it. This occurred in my mid-teens. I was put on anti-depressants and they worked quite well. The psychotic symptoms became worse, and started to occur without depression. This occurred around mid-twenties. I’ve been medicated for both Schizophrenia and Depression since then and it has worked wonders.
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i dun know , i think maybe i am more capable before going to a psychiatrist when i was less severe at that time, i wonder why i would agreed with my parents’ suggestion to go to a psychiatrist at that time, i refused to go school when i just went into colleague because st that time i felt there is a homosexual impulse to me suddenly and i was really panic and afraid about it at that time i think, after i went to a psychiatrist , i got a diagnosis of “depression”, which i still remember that i was’t depressed at all but have some mild issues, but at the same time i wasn’t sure if i really have cognitive issues at that time because i remember the moment i can’t understand anything in the class, it was already 7,8 years ago. and in these few years i never got a formal diagnosis of schizophrenia but i did take meds like danxipress , antidepressants/ some tranquilizers or even antipsychotics like olzanpine because i told my pdoc that i think i have schizophrenia rathar than depression which i really did not think i have it at that time. or even now. But i did wonder if my schizo-like symptoms at that time are related to my antidepressant. I dun really remember the time clearly though. Then , in the recent years i become more sceptical and doubtful about the meds and have been going on and off and i wasn’t sure how i behaved before i started the journey of taking antipsychotics “risperidone” in these two years . The longest time i was on risperidone was like 1-2weeks as i remembered, then i withdrew, i dun really know how the meds acted on me at that time but after i went off, i can said in these time my illness become really obvious and very severe. I have no idea is it the illness progression or the meds’ withdrawal reaction but in these 1 /2 years i have been experiencing quite severe symptoms like dementia , huge coginitive decline , i am like a ■■■■■■■■person now and when i went out i behaved like a insane because i can’t look into others eyes and acted very strange imo. I did not know whether my cognitive decline is due to the withdrawal actions from the Ssri also because i have stopped taking them as well , it was 1 year ago though. Even now, i am still not on any meds though. Maybe I will go back or never go back and i really dun know. If i have never taken any. meds and i became like what i am now , “ a idiot, mentally ■■■■■■■■, and dementia person”, i will most likely go for a “yes” but in these few years of being a rat of experiment for the psychia drugs i become doubtful about my illness’ truth, the triggering reason and the reason of decline of my mental/ intellectual health, Maybe i never go back? but everytime i have thoughts like this i most end up taking them , so i really dun know. but That’s eveything of my froggy mental journey . and who read this until the end i would be amazed.
I experienced some paranoia and delusions before I was diagnosed with schizophrenia. I was paranoid about being busted while high on pot.
I’ve always had symptoms.
I started hearing voices and talking to myself at 5, and when I was 3, the doctor said I got so engulfed in my imagination that what my parents thought was deafness was really me being unable to break out of my train of thought long enough to hear them.
I wasn’t diagnosed until I was 34 but I began having symptoms at 6 years of age.
are u serious ? how can u remember what happen at 3?
Its probably her mother who told her that. My mother told me that I was premature and underweight, they put me on oxygen ventilator bcz my lungs weren’t developped yet.
I read that being premature can cause or increase SZ risk.
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yea I think oxygen deprivation can contribute to szc. I know of someone who got carbon monoxide poisoning and then he had sz.
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Delusions about solipsism etc. since I was a little kid
I heard a sound coming from the apartment upstairs for a long time, possibly years before more obvious signs of something being wrong came. I assumed it was a real sound and didn’t think much of it; only recently I found out (by trying to record it) that it’s a hallucination. I often still hear it to this day.
It was the only symptom for a long time; I wonder why my schizophrenia waited for so long at the background, only playing a faint hallucination every now and then, to then take over my mind and body and ruin my life.
Before that I felt some bad feelings in certain situations, which I assumed were anxiety, but I have doubts about that now.
When i was a kid i believed my mom was replaced by a robot. I heard a few voices. But i didnt develop full blown sza until i was 20 maybe 21. I dont remember fully now.
i did. overwhelming social anxiety, paranoia, delusions, disorganized thinking, racing thoughts and some negatives like lack of motivation that prevented me from finishing school or staying gainfully employed.
but i functioned until i was 26. i think my symptoms started my sophomore year of college at 19 or 20. i was diagnosed at 26 and continued to work for a couple years, as i was in denial and lacked insight, my state of being was my lifelong normal. and i lacked insight. the voices started up at 27 and got bad almost immediately, it was like i woke up one day and they were there. actually i think a 200 mile hike followed by a 13 day water fast triggered them. they lasted until i was 31 when i was forced on meds and they have gone away for the most part for 4 years, sometimes i get night time voices, but not on my new med. and in the past i was having 1 bad day with daytime voices and racing thoughts about every 150 days even when i was med compliant.
I can’t my parents told me.
I have a few memories from age 3, but not many.
But they told me they kept adressing me and calling me and I would never respond, so they took me to the doctor worried that I was going deaf.
He did a full examination and said my hearing was fine, I was just so consumed with my imagination that I wasn’t paying attention
Cognitive decline in college…