I do.
It is complicated and I am not sure how much I can discuss due to risk and threats that were made if I disclose.
I know this is why I became ill at age 17, it was right after this contact/threats
My whole life has been influenced but this and I am still afraid.
I am over 50
peace.
I think I had an insidious form of schizophrenia . It was getting worse and worse, little by little. But I had a traumatic time that then bought everything to a head.
I’ve left home and town at 19 to start my life at university. I went through a minor depression then, and my cognitive functions seemed to decline slowly but surely ever since. I’ve had my psychotic break at the ripe age of thirty, so it doesn’t get more insidious than this, imo. No traumatic event per se, but a stream of minor stressful events that added up.
To me it was more of a gradual thing.
School was traumatically stressful to me.
And part-time work I did after school was also stressful.
Just being an adolescent alone was traumatic to me.
Plus life at home wasn’t that great either.
Life is much easier now. Even with schizophrenia.
Yes I do. And same here.
Back in the day when I was 22. I bumped my nose and had severe head problems from it and ended up having surgery, and I think that was the onset of my schizophrenia, but due to my lack of awareness and my head trauma. I couldn’t tell that I had any symptoms of schizophrenia besides the head problems. The Therapist would diagnose me as PTSD type because of my history. Which had nothing to do with any of it is was me head the whole time that triggered everything. Now I’ve narrowed it down to foggy cognitive/ schizoid type not full blown schizophrenia, because I don’t believe in the mental health issues, but that’s my opinion. Well have a good one hope this helps!
intounknown
I had Mood instability and severe Panic Disorder all throughout my childhood.
Taking a powerful Hallucinogen (Mescaline) in college triggered full blown SZA and Psychosis.
I was never the same since.
Yes, living in a house with an abusive and scary dad. My brain had to dissociate from reality at an early age for me to deal with it.
I dont know if my family played a role but it’s genetics and stress. My sister and brother don’t have anything. My circumstances and upbringing caused it. I had some symptoms before than due to stress it started in paranoia. Life goes on
According to my psychiatrist i always had my illness since i was a kid
No, though I did go through some traumatic/stressful events later in my childhood. I’ve been having hallucinations and delusions since I can remember, so maybe it was caused by being born prematurely.
I think that’s just how it works in my family. Everyone is crazy and traumatized and abusive, and just passes it on from one generation to the next, each generation gets their “genes activated” by abuse and then has trauma plus mental illness. I actually decided long ago that I am never having kids, gotta put a stop to this madness.
Does being born count?
A few bad acid trips triggered my schizophrenia. Not only was it indecent, it was downright rude.
I can see how I was a high-risk: Immigrant at age of 8, raised in a city, tough time adjusting to college, stress of college and work, change of friends, negative social experiences, smoked marijuana daily for close to a year. But prolly a month of before full blown psychosis at 19 y/o, I got rejected by the first girl I loved twice, and split up what should of been a single dose of psylocibin mushrooms into five separate days. I was also experiencing serious depression at 18. Not to mentions my brilliant quantum physicist uncle killed himself; so I’m sure I inherited something wacky.
(no pun intended in this post! just a little venting with my mental health issues as well) 
No actually I grew up with a little trauma in my life but nothing that would ignite Sz to come out of me. I think that with enough scapegoaters out there that were all capable of schizophrenia! (sorry my mental health issues forgive me) That being targeted on all scales is a major issue in society today and people can get away with in conspiracy especially on a virtual level and with enough people the conspiracy could last forever because the statute or limitations don’t exist and if they do its just another to the big pile of BS that the politicians pull everyday to keep the security in this country its a favor for our freedom!
I just find it fishy! How most Sz happens between 18-45 that’s the prime of your life! How odd is that? If I was going to suppress someone or limit them from doing anything I would do it between those time frames. Make life a little harder! Subdue there will to fight for there life. It don’t matter theres so many traitors out there! It don’t matter if there foreign, alien or American! there still traitors on computers in the background of your life. The government can make billions of dollars off it each year to violate your natural rights and not only that they advocate it, because of the secrecy and the warfare!
Do I think this is caused by my past issues no I think its a conspiracy that everybody should have a little dualism in there life to understand what its about!
Have a good one!
intounknown
It wasn’t a single incident with me, but there were things going on at our house when I was young that really tormented me. I don’t care to go into specifics.
Yes. Trauma was one of the major causes of my illness. I am quite sure I wouldn’t have become ill without trauma. I only got ill at 29-30 years old.
I got sz and then had a traumatic experience caused by the symptoms. So because of that I think my illness has been worse than what it would be without that experience.
I had a lot of trauma from 11-15
that was almost worse than the onset of my full blown psychosis at age 19 due to the fact that I was already battered and bruised when I was 19…I was used to struggling. And my psychosis was BAD.