so you think three years was the prodromal stage?
yes I would say that my whole life I was âdifferentâ over sensitive and weird to most people but the last three years before I became full blown I was increasingly paranoid.
Sudden. It hit me hard over a period of about two to three days and then I was hospitalized. Never been the same since
It all happened gradually sudden.
I was angry and sick. But it wasnât till I started the Wellbutrin I got sudden psychosis.
Gradual. Then one summer day I wasnât the same anymore. I was literally a different personâŚ
Iâve had signs all my life. I remember my mother telling me, that even in 1st grade my teacher said I had problems with my motor skills. As for any kind of mental illness, it started out as depression and suicidal thoughts at age 15. At 17, when semesters were changing in grade 12, I had a full blown manic episode that lasted about 4 or 5 days. Didnât get put into the hospital until after graduation about 5 months later. For about 2 weeks, I was having horrific thoughts about hurting others 24/7, but they took me by surprise because I didnât want to commit them. I was diagnosed at the time as having depression with psychotic features. About 3 weeks after I got out of the ward, my parents forced me to become a full time student at the local university, although I had already been accepted around graduation. Early in the first semester, I mentioned to my pdoc at the time that I was having some problems with perceiving reality. He prescribed me fluanxol, but some time in November, I stopped taking my medication because I thought my depression was gone. In January, I was killing some time at one of the shopping centers uptown, and a feeling came over me that at the time âfelt like I had been touched by the hand of Godâ. It lasted about a month, which of course is pretty standard, when I was taken in handcuffs to the hospital in a police van.
thats kind of the whole point of what i was saying
I think mine was gradual.
Iâm sure the intense anxiety and fear of becoming ill (with pathogens) was the first sign, since it was very abnormal for me to be so afraid of these things.
It also began with whispers of my name and the occasional shadow person.
About half a year later, is when things went downhill after a period of such intense stress.
I was always weird and I became ill gradually. My first psychotic episode was sudden though.
I am not quite sure yet about the prodromal phase. i canât tell when and how long did it take.
prodromal phase is a mysteryâŚ
many of schizotypals become eventually szphrenics. I was one of them. so was schizotypal prodromal or not?
I had a gradual onset. Started coming when I was 13 and took 5 years or so till my breakdown and diagnosis. Anxiety and depression got worse over the years and spiralled into psychosis. I find anxiety and depression come first then only the delusions and voices. But itâs different each time I relapse. So I canât say exactly.
Mine was sort of gradual, although drugs did play a part in it as well.