Do you think one can get ptsd from schizophrenia

DX'd - Sz/SzA
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I am doing well

Have a lot of moments where my symptoms have cleared up

But it seems like there’s some type of residual PTSD or something

Somethings telling me not to go on and go through an event that will traumatize me again

I have been holding up well and don’t see why I shouldn’t continue to

I have a lot of support to accomplish more in life too

It’s not really bad

Just seems like somethings holding me back

I seem to not want to take on things in life that will require more energy from me

But so far I’ve had pretty good energy to do the things I need to do

Nothing intentionally has been done to me to cause trauma in my life by anyone

As long as I keep building up stamina in life and not becoming completely exhausted there is much joy in my life right now

I think what I’m really fearing is becoming completely exhausted in life

I really am not used to recovering and building I am more used to being broken down

So far so good

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Honestly, yes. The positive symptoms can be so real and terrifying.

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I googled the symptoms of PTSD and I don’t have it even though I feel like I should…

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Yes. PTSD can cause schizophrenia, but also schizophrenia can cause or worsen PTSD. The symptoms were like being in a horror show. For me. Doesn’t really matter it was not real…it was extremely scary. As were the real things happening to me because of the symptoms (wards and violence and all).

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Yes. I believe so. I get ptsd like symptoms, many overlap with Schizophrenia symptoms but a few extra more common with PTSD, like nightmares, flashbacks, intrusive thoughts… it’s hard to say cause there is no diagnosis. It’s just what I think is happening.

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yes absolutely. mental disorders are related. i think i may have ptsd from my hallucinations. really threw me for a loop.

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I’m pretty sure I got ptsd from psychosis…it haunts me still.

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I feel like, with everything my mind and body went through in such a short amount of time, that I did develop some post traumatic stress symptoms. I was anorexic, lost 100 pounds in 5 months, then my schizophrenia started to show through the veil of the mind.

I went full-blown catatonic for the whole summer, couldn’t hardly move, think, or feel even a glimpse of normal human emotion. I was, as I described to my father one day, a paranoid vegetable. My delusional thinking ran rampant and it was of the most pernicious nature. My voices constantly told me to commit suicide, and my visual hallucinations only contributed to my delusions and paranoia.

Luckily, I got on medication fast and was able to recover slightly, but that first psychotic break, really did break my mind.

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I think trauma (PTSD) both led to my schizoaffective disorder and was/is certainly further complicated by my schizophrenic symptoms (psychosis).

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It is not just the biological progress of sz and the symptoms of the disease that can cause ptsd, it is also from external forces like low lifes who beat up people because they live on the street. That kind of thing does damage too.

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It does…the responses of other people caused ptsd in me as well.

I hope that did not actually happen to you yourself, the beating up on the streets. If so, I’m sorry…and I hope you heal.

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Experience of psychosis or schizophrenia can be traumatizing.

I used to avoid people I had disagreements with during psychotic episode. Even places I was at seem unnerving.

I hope not to meet or have to meet those people. Or go places.

Had nightmares which had themes similar to first episode for few years.

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Yes definitely.

I have bad memories of being molested starting from when I was a baby and also being raped and bullied and abused and mocked and hated and alone and then voices and other horrible stuff.

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I’m sorry you had to go through that @SacredNeigh7

My mother shared stories of her being beaten by her father

And he would lock her in the basement without food or water or anything

Their relationship ended on good terms when he passed away

I don’t even talk about this with her or bring it up anymore

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This traumatize me for what I thought I would never overcome

Then my voices told me that death will defeat me and my family

If I let the thought of death Get into my head regarding me or my loved ones my voice is telling me I will be traumatized beyond comprehension

My anti depressant stopped me constantly focusing on death

My Abilify took the feelings away from death and my unacceptance of this part of life

Sometimes I have moments where I just want to say don’t do anything stupid and just go for it in life

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No. It didn’t actually happen to me. I got that from a story on the news.

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Ah. Good to hear it did not happen to you. (But sad that it happens to others).

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Yeah, i think it can.

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I can imagine so.

Because after all, psychosis can make us believe absolutely anything is real or will be real.

So we can literally experience the worst things we can imagine as real or going to be real.

That’s traumatising.

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Yes, you can get ptsd from having sz.

Mostly for me they’re experiences I have had with people about my sz.

Age 17: Gets rejected from a school trip because of sz (deemed “potential danger”)
Age 18: mistreated at hospitals
Age 19: watched nurses talk behind my back in a loud voice, saying I don’t have a life as a person with sz
Age 20: gets kicked out of residence because of sz
Age 22: breaks up with boyfriend because of sz, gets paralyzed, gets rejected from residence again because of bedbugs that my friend accidently spread in my room, gets deemed “psychologically unstable” and refused neurology services based on my sz, moves 10,000 miles away from friends and never went out for 2 years
Age 23-25: fights with family over the authenticity of my physical health, financially broke as a family, everyone is stressed because of me. Started to walk again but things go downhill with severe fatigue
Age 25: loses contact with almost all of my friends. Assumes that this is because I was too dependent on them like a vampire, and because I inflicted too much pain on others. I still perform daily rituals to “cleanse” myself from shame and to ask for forgiveness.
Age 26: starts to have ocd symptoms.

Not sure if it will get worse, but the worst part of it all, is that I did all this because of my sz. What’s even worse is that I did all this in the expense of my friends and family. I’m not sure why I’m not dead already as punishment.