Just wondering if anyone else has had something traumatic happen to them, which in turn brings out schizophrenia? For me, when I was 11, my mother died. Within 13 months, I was in my first psych hospital. When I was 19 and recovering, my dad shot himself with a shotgun, doing me no favors psychologically. It didn’t have the immediate impact that my mother’s death did, but when I relapsed at age 26, I had a lot of traumatic memories from the room he died in sprout up into my daily thinking and incessant nightmares. I still dream of that room. I can be doing whatever in my day, and I will have this overwhelming barrage of memories and emotions. I will feel that initial shock all over again, and sometimes I will almost lose my cookies.
During my first admission, the psychiatrist said I might have developed sz anyway, but her death pushed me off a cliff. Those were a different time - the docs actually spent time with you and didn’t just give you 5 minutes and a brush-off only three times a week.
Anybody else have their schizophrenia occur as a result of trauma? (I hope this doesn’t trigger people.)
Im sorry to hear about the traumatic experiences you’ve had. Sometimes life can seem extremely adverse and the only thing you can do is wait it out and hope that things will get better. I definitely think the experiences you cited played a significsnt role in causing you to succumb to the illness. Best of luck to you in your life and in taking on the future. I hope things get better for you.
My sz developed after I took a severe beating, probably a bit of PTSD and all my paranoia and delusions are about being back in that situation again. My sz developed at25 which is late for men so would I have developed it otherwise???
I think most of us have some kind of severe conflict or trauma in their past. I don’t know if that causes sz. It brings up that nature/nurture question. One way I heard it put was that genetics loads the gun, and the environment pulls the trigger.
I heard this a long time ago from one of my pdocs.
Some people who are predisposed get it and some don’t. For example, identical twins, one can get it and the other will be okay.
Im really sorry about the trauma no one deserves to go through what u did and u have to be really strong and a fighter to be here and im glad u are. For me the tipping point was when i drove my car into a tree on purpose. Going about 55 with no belt. That moment is when my depression turned into a deeper issue. What i dislike most is that ill have not only mental scars but physical scars for the rest of my life since my car set on fire and gave me 3rd degrees on my legs. Some people have said they look badass but for me its just a reminder of my past mistakes
No one should have to witness a suicide with a gun, let alone being with a family member, my heart goes out to you @Wave.
Time heals most things, but I know trauma of that magnitude never seems to heal quickly enough, and maybe it will never heal,
but it shouldn’t consume your every waking or sleeping hour either.
Doubt your father would have wanted you to feel as bad as he did when he made that decision, other people’s feelings are the last thing on someone’s mind when they are hurting bad enough to take their lives, they just want the hurt to stop, not leave their hurt as their legacy.
Things unresolved are not ‘dead’, and you can’t bury that which isn’t ‘dead’. It will keep coming back up to interfere in our life until we finally make peace with them, or they have consumed us.
If you put/make something that represents you, your father, and all that remains unresolved, together in a form that has special meaning to you, and put in somewhere convenient for you to and allows you to safely express all that bothers you.
When you’ve said what you needed (for this time) leave all the thoughts and feeling with the item(s) so they have a chance to (perhaps) respond, maybe in the way we know, but it other ways not known, so keep your eyes, and mind open.
It isn’t a quick fix solution by any means, but it is a start in finding peace for you, and it sure can’t hurt to try.
I haven’t really had any trauma. My mom used to scream at me all of the time and a lot of kids at school hated me. My dad is an alcoholic, but he is a kind person whether he is drunk or sober. But really I haven’t been through anything compared to others.
Yeah, a doctor severely burned my head when I was 10 months old and my mother was so upset about it that she had to be hospitalized, herself. She was gone just when I needed her the most.
I’m not sure, some of the doctors think it was the abusive relationship I was in. But I was already seeing shadows once in a while so I’m not sure. That relationship and those shadows almost drove me to suicide, a thing I would never do sane.
He was so abusive that I wanted to end my life, probably drove me nuts too. I think it plays some factor there.
Is that new pdoc of yours also a psychotherapist? It would do you some good I think. It’s not something you should carry on your shoulders alone…
Hi, yes my mentall illness is caused by Trama.
My symptoms are a lot different than schizhophrenia. I only cary delusion symptom that people with schizophrenia have. In my opinion child hood trama cause rare type of psychotic illness, but since, many stuped psychatrists cant figure out, they just diagnose something to get over with…
I wonder if you hear voices and do you think you have the right diagnosis. If your illness is caused by trama, than you must have different symptoms, than people here discribe theirs. This is just my opinion. Please reply.
I started hearing voices when I was 13 after a traumatic situation that I prefer not to discuss. I only heard voices here and there until I was 24. When I was 24, I was going through a very bad time with my boyfriend and I ended up breaking up with him. He was the first person I had ever been with for an extended period of time and lived with and I loved him very much, so breaking up with him was hard on me and I think it definitely brought on my sz.
I developed sz from a drug trauma. It was the most horrifying experience that I still live with today. But with meds there is hope for sanity. Some of us can become really stabilized. I feel sorry for your dad and mom. I felt like blowing my head off and getting all over with in the past but that was during instability. Staying stable is the way to be. Getting enough sleep and finding positive outputs.