How do you remember when you first got a schizophrenia episode. What were you doing and how did you cope with it? 
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I was in secondary school with horrible grades. Had to drop out halfway to confirm diagnosis and find the right meds at that time. Do what you like. Life is like a holiday.
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I like your advice. Thanks.
I remember sitting in my car before an IT job I had to go to. I was listening to the radio and I thought all the songs were about me. Then I hallucinated the radio host laughing at me. Instead of going to my job I drove 20km out of town and then realising I had nowhere to go I turned around and headed back.
I was about 29, working as an onsite IT desktop technician. It was a wild couple of years before I got on meds.
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And has your medicine worked?
I’ve been on four meds. The first and last (current) meds worked the best. My positives are gone except when I get stressed/don’t eat right/drink too much alcohol. My negatives took about 10 years to disappear, but I’m more or less negative free now provided I look after myself.
Hope you get well completely.
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How about you? What was your first episode like?
My first episode was one day in my junior high school I just felt weird and I felt like I was in a dream. Then I started ditching school and my grades started lowering. I also had many intelligent thoughts before and now I had lost them. I just remember the good thoughts that I had made before.
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Having to deal with this stuff at school must have been difficult. Did you get diagnosed soon? It took me 2.5 years before I saw a doctor as I didn’t know anything was wrong with me medically.
Do the meds work well for you now?
Hey @Daniella_Guzman
It’s all a little mixed up when I try to recall the exact time frame that everything was happening. But I basically started to go psychotic and manic in early 2011. I was around 16 years old then.
I had tons of crazy delusions and hallucinations. I think certain real events that happened to me, plus drug use added with a little predisposition to mental illness wasnt the best mix and that’s what triggered sza for me.
What’s it like coming back to this site after such a huge break? Haha.
Changed much?
No it hasn’t I’ve had other problems since then but I am getting there.
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It all started for me when I was working abroad. I’m fine but don’t work and still on disability. So far for coping.
Welcome back!!! I have the same problem. I graduated number 1 in my university I went to. I have a perfect GPA. I couldn’t think my way out of a paper bag now. It’s like I have poverty of thought. I used to be a deep thinker. It really sucks.
Welcome back! I joined this forum in January of this year (2021)
I became psychotic in 2003/2004 but had mental health issues before that. I was in University at the time and had to drop out. I never got my degree unfortunately. I lived on residence at University, the very first mental health episode I had was a major panic attack as I was driving down the highway on my way home on the weekend. They feeling was awful, unlike anything I had ever experienced, at first I thought I was having a heart attack, it freaked me out because I was going 100mk/hour (60miles/hour) down the highway and couldn’t pull over. I’ll never forget that experience. I got off at the next exit and took back streets all the way home. I slowly went downhill from there and eventually became psychotic and was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Oh I’m so sorry. What were your symptoms? Mine were just worrying about odd things.
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Everyone worries about stuff, I think that is perfectly normal, I still worry about stuff, as long as it doesn’t become chronic, cause anxiety or panic attacks or depression I don’t think you should worry about worrying too much.
I had a ton of much more severe symptoms. Anxiety, panic attacks, depression (All 3 of which I no longer experience, very occasionally I’ll have some anxiety). When I became psychotic I sensed energies, like orgasmic, happiness, love, anger energies when I was round some people. These were energies, not feelings/emotions. I had visual, auditory and tactile hallucinations. Thought broadcasting, telepathy. I would hear voices coming from the TV. I had a delusion I was being mind controlled. All kinds of weird experiences.
Thankfully it’s all gone since being on meds. I am currently on 60mg of Lurasidone (Latuda).
Oh, wow, well I’m really happy for you. Is Latuda that medicine that they advertise on TV?
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Thanks!
Yeah, one of them. I have seen Latuda commercials several times on TV. I’ve seen commercials for some other meds as well.
Does it get help with getting up early and doing things?
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