makes me think of ptsd’s but i think mine was gradual
Yes mine came on suddenly after a tragic event.
Yeah, my toaster broke.
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I’m not sure, my sister who I practically raised was raped and at the time my I started thinking she was being beaten by her boyfriend because the friend of the rapist said that’s why they where sleeping over for. Not knowing if it was true I started to hallucinate my sister’s boyfriend beating her outside my room. All three of us lived together at the moment. I started patrolling the hall and constantly checking on her while giving her boyfriend grief everyday. Till one day I heard them fighting and when I opened the door and they where laughing. Then it hit me I was hearing things. I started to pop out of my room regularly to confirm this and every time they where just talking and laughing. Then I knew something was wrong with me so and thought I could fix it by smoking weed everyday. You can guess what happens next. I think schizophrenia can be triggered by a trauma but I honestly don’t know if It was just a series of horrible events or if they all where correlated.
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No, not for me. It sounds cliché, but it seemed like a slow descent into madness.
I read recently about a theory on the origins of schizophrenia, that it is perhaps caused by elevated cortisol levels in pregnant women – so stressed-out mothers-to-be give birth to infants destined for stress, depression, and anxiety problems, including an elevated chance of psychotic disorders.
So. Premature baby, negligent / abusive childhood, repressed sexual assault, genetic history of psychiatric problems in the family. Bad beginnings.
My first psychotic episode was definitely due to depression and hallucinations, possibly delusions about the true nature of those hallucinations.
However, I think over the past decade my condition has worsened due to increased stress and trouble with the police / state agencies. I don’t think I’d be doing so badly if I’d never gotten in trouble with the police. Now there are some days where I’m afraid to leave the house or answer the door because I am positive I will be arrested and brought to jail if I do.
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My whole life was a traumatic mess
I was never the same after Sha Na Na broke up.
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IMHO the SZ came along on its own. I suspect that any life would have things one could point at, if SZ strikes. Some things may just be caused by the SZ itself. Cause and effect gets confused. fMRI studies show a change that spreads across the brain during onset. Life events must be coincidental.
A less than ideal childhood could not hold a candle to the sneaky underhanded crap I delt with in my marriage.
I had a baby and then I was the victim of a cyber hack. That’s how it all started, I was worried that they would have all my information, know where my kids go to school ect… This worry turned to paranoia, I thought I was being followed and plotted against… And here I am with schizophrenia. Diagnosed at 33, now I’m 34, I still worry about my personal information being in the hands of hackers.
i had an emotional abusive relationship. i was manipulated and played. all at the excitement from this girl. to deal with the stress from that i was self medicating with a lot of drugs then bam, psychosis with major mood swings. sza
Well my mom was always an alcoholic and drank while I was in the womb so that must’ve contributed to my sz/a. Traumatic experiences happened to me around the age of 11 when I transferred to a new school, lost my friends, had my grandma in a coma, had my parents split and lost my mom, etc. it was a rough childhood but I’m still trying to make things better today 
I was always mentally ill. What started my psychotic breaks was Vocational rehab not finding me a job. I had a trial job for a month. But screwed up every interview. I blamed women for my own incompetence with them. It was my sins like watching sick porn. What I watched still haunts me today. I lost 70 percent control of my head after this. Several other things started my psychosis as well
yes… I experiences extreme stress and trauma then I hit rock bottom .
I think alcohol played a role in my succumbing to my illness. Alcoholics can drink shocking amounts of alcohol. Sometimes I would drink 30 beers a day for 3 or 4 days straight. The shakes I got afterwards felt very destabilizing to me. I went into blackouts and did crazy things when drunk. It’s the damndest thing, though, when they gave me the shot of Haldol decoate it cut about in half how much I can drink. I can’t get nearly as drunk now as I used to, which is fortunate, because if I kept drinking like that I would have gotten into real trouble.
Paranoia developing because of marijuana and hashshish use, triggered by being suddenly confronted with my old girlfriend and her new companion, at the age of 20 or 21. I had a collapse followed by 50 years or so of this illness.