Were they recognized as psychotic symptoms by someone else or did nobody find out?
I personally have always been somewhat weird when it comes to fears and beliefs
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I’ve always been somewhat weird too. But I didn’t have my first full fledged psychosis until I was in my 40’s.
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I’ve always had some unusual beliefs and some paranoia, but I wasn’t diagnosed until 25ish.
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The moods started around that time (preteen), the psychosis at around 25…
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I had unusual beliefs since childhood
but sz at 27
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I suffered with fears and anxiety since I was 5 years old.
Unusual beliefs and psychosis began in my late teens into early 20s.
Diagnosed with schizophrenia at 20 years old.
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I have been diagnosed at age 28 but I have panic attacks since I’m a child
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ages 3 and up, i used to have ‘best friends’ that were real to me and invisible to everyone else (not imaginary). it was difficult to make real friends because of these people i thought were real. i used to see demons and other spiritual stuff, and it never went away, always seemingly getting worse. i had a good handful of delusions, that typically absolved or was forgotten when i moved on to the next concept. there were times i thought i was an animal, behaved like one, and such, and that lasted till highschool and im hoping not again.
because my family was hyper-religious, they just saw it as me conspiring with the devil or demons instead of symptoms of psychosis. it wasnt until i had an aggressive outburst that they put me in a psychiatric ward, where i was diagnosed at age 12-14. my mother is schizophrenic and the abusive childhood she put me through started my early onset of symptoms.
but now im in my 20s, medicated, and seeking treatment!
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I’d hallucinate an alien when I closed my eyes at night
I thought they might want to make contact one day
I also had a voice call my name, which happened so often I thought it could be a ghost.
This is not too far off the norm I don’t think
Self injury and wanting to be anorexic started age 11 and 12,
Always bullied and on autistic spectrum
Played alone
The odd bit of magical thinking
And age 13 the real symptoms started
13 - 17 the stuff was all not mentally healthy but full blown delusions age 17
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i don’t remember very well when things started but it was in my teens that things got out of hand but then i managed for a while still… then in my 20s things got worse again and eventually was diagnosed.
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Prodromal starting around 12-13, full blow psychosis and a suicide attempt at age 15.
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Childhood psychosis is very rare. Women are usually later than men. I was 35.
I was 31. They guessed trauma. The cause.
The school did an IQ test on me and found I had a near photographic memory. The school also had me labeled as mentally disturbed in 4th grade.
Looking back in retrospect I think I was a sociopath as a kid. I started doing drugs when I was 14. I ended up with psychosis when I was 19. My first symptoms I can recall were at age 16.
I think being a sociopath combined with drugs led to psychosis. When I was hospitalized no one told the doctors I was doing drugs. They just labeled me as schizophrenic because I had all the classic symptoms.
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I had delusions from childhood up to adulthood.
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Yes. I had symptoms since I was 6. I started seeing a therapist when I was six until now.
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Probably around age 20, but it’s uncertain as I was in the grip of full-blown alcoholism and drug addiction at that point (excessive use of weed and amphetamines with some shrooms and LSD thrown in). Hard to tell what was the substance abuse and what was the SZ.
For the Asperger’s, my symptoms have been for as long as I remember.
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I started at age 6. I started to seeing my first therapist who was one of my favorites till this day.
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My symptoms started when I was 30 in America. They started soon after the CIA had tried to recruit me. I started hearing voices and words from TV. 1999 was a bad year and I had many delusions primarily linked to spying and satellite surveillance. Once I found myself driving my auto in Atlanta and trying to escape this spying and surveillance.
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I think mine started getting bad at around 16 or 17.
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