Do you ever blame someone else for your illness?

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I Blame this thread!

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My father, aunt, and cousin have sz or sza.

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Iā€™d blame drugs. Although it probably would of happened eventually anyway

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I blame the turtles

Seriously, I think genes mostly.

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Well, shitty parents donā€™t help.

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I have been told I have a genetic predisposition for it and that extreme stress pushed the right buttons and set me up for symptoms. In other words, even with my predisposition, I may not have had it at all if I werenā€™t an abused child and had severe stress (more abuse) as an adult. On the flip side, folks who donā€™t have the genetic predisposition deal with all that stress and donā€™t get SZ.
At the end of the day, I blame my abusers. Itā€™s a shared trophy of several people with a few main players. Predisposition or not, I likely would not have ā€˜brokeā€™ if not for the extreme stress.

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Iā€™m not sure what role my parents played in it - simply donā€™t know about these things and though I love my parents, it seems to me that it does not follow from that they are excluded as a factor. Played a big role in it myself as well. If I look back on the couple of years prior to my onset, there were some ups and downs but some shift towards that schizoid personality can be discerned. Which can but need not blend into actual schizophrenia. This did not happen behind my back. I was there being proud of who I was. Now some things changed and at the other end of the episodes a bit of a different personality came out. Which I am happy with. So to talk about ā€˜blamingā€™ would be slightly off for me - some changes have been positive as I perceive of them now.

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