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I knew exactly what it was but my ignorance about it delayed me getting help. i didn’t know there were drugs for the condition, it wouldn’t go away on its own. or that I wouldn’t necessarily have to spend the rest of my life in a asylum for it. I would encourage that someone who is on this site for the first time if you have symptoms that are impossible to handle get help. If your illness is treatable it will do you a World of good.
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No I don’t think I knew. I did read about mental health problems in books but the first pdoc I saw thought I had bipolar and maybe sza. Only after that my third pdoc told me I had sz.
I always knew something was different about me. When I was little I thought I was an alien, I always felt homesick for a different planet.
I saw ghosts when I was young, but I thought it was normal being raised in a magical household. I guess I showed other signs as a young girl.
When I found out I had MI i was actually a bit offended. Thought I was just magical or somehow special. I was disheartened thinking that my alien family would never come and take me away.
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Not until I started hearing the radio announcer. I was totally lacking insight that my mental state was all off.
Edit: I take that back. I would go through periods of weird delusion, then I would abruptly break through it and realize I was delusional for a while, then a new delusion would crop up and the cycle would repeat until I started hallucinating.
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yea i had a feeling that schizophrenia was the only thing that could describe how i experienced reality.
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I really didn’t think I had schizophrenia, but that’s mostly because I didn’t know much about it.
I thought the different people in my head meant I had DID, and the psychiatrist originally tried testing me for autism, so that was what I was expecting.
When he told me I didn’t have DID nor autism, and that I was schizophrenic, I was like “no way.” But as soon as they taught me a little about it, I realised it made a lot of sense.
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I had no insight until my third hospitalization, when I started hearing voices. Figured some kind of mental disorder had happened then.
I thought my paranoia was justified, and that the government had chipped my brain, but that was unfounded.
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No
I dont know such illness exist
It is hard to believe illness
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I had a manic episode first. My gp said I should see a psychiatrist so I did. Then I got severely depressed. I didn’t know what was wrong with me. I looked the symptoms up in a book and I found schizophrenia. It explained my symptoms. I heard voices and had temperature problems and couldn’t do schoolwork anymore.
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No idea. I’d suffered some serious depression before but psychosis was a new beast! I just thought a lot of stuff was being done behind the scenes. I actually had an appointment with the crisis team because the television was talking to me specifically and I thought that ASIO were doing all this programming to send me messages. I was embarrassed because I thought that would cost a lot of money to do all that!!!
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Within days of first hearing voices I looked up schizophrenia in an old psych 101 text book and took a look. I was kinda like @led, I didn’t think I really fit the criteria, it was the voices that were paranoid and delusional, not me. For many years, I would go back and forth on whether the voices were actual people or that I was just symptomatic from being on drugs.
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At a late age when the voices did not stop my ex and I began to suspect, but even after the diagnosis I still have difficulties internalizing
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i can remember sitting in class as a sophomore in college and having anxiety, bordering on a panic state. I thought it was just growing pains instead it was a precursor for being diagnosed sz about 3 years later.
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I had felt I had some kind of sz for many years before I was actually diagnosed with it, yes because my paranoia was so pronounced and I suffered so terribly from it.
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I was very depressed in my teens but when the Psychosis started I had no idea what to think. My first stay my roomie kept saying my name and I kept him up by saying what what what? The staff happily moved him elsewhere.
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Had schizophrenia my whole life but had no idea, i thought i was a perfectly normal shapeshifting half demon, demon hunter, the only one who could win the war when the demons invade. Who woulda thought it was all in my head?
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