Did your schizophrenia start with depression? [Poll]

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I remember being a funny guy in a friend group. I used to work a lot and smoke up and have a good laugh with friends. After a year I became depressed, stayed in bed in the mornings, missed lectures, barely talked. Then I became suspicious of my friends and then really anxuous

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I had a depressive break at 23 but with hindsight I was pretty paranoid even back then. I also had some issues with ocd and racing thoughts. I think it’s pretty common for sz to have depression as well.

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I got diagnosed with depression at 18. Then bipolar in my early 30s. Then by 40s I finally got diagnosed with sza.

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I developed Major Depression at around 16 years of age. I did, however, some some paranoid ideation at the time, but i didn’t hear voices or anything like that. I got diagnosed with Schizophrenia at about 27 or thereabouts.

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I was originally diagnosed with psychotic depression, then it changed to sz. So definitely started with depression.

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Depression and suicidal thoughts since I was a wee one. DX with MDD at 14

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Quite the opposite, it started with mania.

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sz can make anyone depressed, that’s normal.
Just don’t let the turkeys get you down.
Things can only get better from the bottom

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I chose yes but really I cant tell. I had symptoms of schizophrenia as a child but j dont know if I had it or just showed traits. I developed depression at age 13 though for sure.

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I had depression as a child and apathy and feelings of hopelessness.

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Mhmm! I had depression when I was around 13-14 years old. And then, I started to develop psychosis that landed me at the hospital at the age of 17. I was diagnosed with sz when I was 17.

So technically I’m sza but my doctor doesn’t believe that sza exists so??? idk

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Tried to kill myself in 2nd grade by secretly taking a 50ct bottle of tylenol. I guess that’d be depression, but it started earlier cause of sexual assault at age 4 and the cops let the guy go because I didn’t show “traumatization” like a normal kid. I told in detail what happened, this was 1989. No physical check was done, I acted too ok for the officer’s liking. So my Papa took care of the guy, was threatened with jail, and that made me visibly depressed within weeks. Nothing came of it, creep didn’t press charges, but he did go on to assault 10 other young girls under age 7, last one was a cops daughter. He served time. I’ve gotten 2 stories since high school, either he finally got out. Or was killed in prison. I don’t know as I only found out years later he had been arrested in the mid 90’s.

But yeah, I took OTC meds to try and kill myself a lot as a kid, then the surgery that triggered the sz. Sucky lot I tell ya. I talked to school counselors who in middle school said it was daddy issues and my physical pain issues, no one knew about the suicide attempts. Only my husband knows exactly what all I’ve done to myself. High school professional psychologist helped me thru the miscarriages in high school, and then the break down of my mom. He suggested me and hubby getting the hell outta Beloit, which we didn’t.

My oldest caught me over the summer with deep cut Mark’s on my wrists and arms, so he knew what was going on. He’s also bipolar so he understood the situation, but he’s always had depression from young age, blame the environment the first school produced, we were outsiders and him and another boy were severe ADHD and bipolar, on meds, and they were treated like ■■■■ by staff and the teachers would tell those 2 in middle of class, go take your crazy meds, we don’t need trouble at 10am everyday cause for them to be in school they were required to take the meds in the school office in front of secretary. It was humiliating for those two. The other boy’s family sued the district and won a large amount and moved to Texas with the money. We hear from them once in awhile, he’s doing so much better! And Kalick is doing better here in Janesville, he’s off the ritalin and going off the zyprexa. He is much better tempered coming off. I think meds starting in kindergarten was wrong, but there was only 1 school in the town we lived in, it was K-12, so no escape.

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I was first depressed at age 15,I was brought to a psychiatrist and he gave my family antidepressant and want my family to guide me to take the medicine daily.After 3-4 weeks I dislike the medicine and didn’t continue.Then fast forward at age 19,after school I was diagnosed sz and had been on meds for close to a decade

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I got suicidal depression first at the age of 16. Then as time went on I used illegal drugs like ecstasy and coke and weed to self medicate.

Though since the age twelve I smoked weed already, but ecstasy and coke made weed more attractive in my later life at 16.

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I had mania and depression before psychosis. Before my first psychosis I went through a period of deep depression. I stopped eating, became severely underweight and spent my days wandering the city and crying lol. Then I quickly became psychotic and manic at the same time. When the psychosis and mania combine its like I enter a whole new plain of existence lol

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I feel like I’ve battled depression, sza, and other symptoms like dissociation since I can first remember.

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My diagnosis was major depression with psychotic features at one point too. It took about 4 years of psychosis before they gave me sza. Then a couple of years later the doctor changed my diagnosis to schizophrenia.

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Yes, exactly. Major depression for one month, then schizophrenia

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So, what’s your diagnosis @anon10648258?