Mine was after a course of antibiotics for acne and then I got into the medicine cabinet taking ginseng and gingko biloba. I guess the combo and being maybe predisposed a little and being so Introverted and isolated lead to psychosis.
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I had several bad trips on acid which I think triggered it but I think I would have gotten it anyways even without the acid.
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I blame my days of smoking pot as a teenager that brought out my sz.
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It started very gradually for me i was a very troubled teen who did her best to reverse it but despite best efforts schizophrenia got its claws into me. Im not recovered i have many struggles
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It kinda hit me one day. My friends and I were going to the skatepark I wanted to skate for I believe my 16th birthday(i didn’t put this together till later, but that’s where it happened and we went there for my 16th birthday). When I got out the car everything was heavy and dark. I couldn’t skate at all. I was kinda shut down. It took another 2-3 years before I was floridly psychotic.
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I smoked some marijuana and developed schizophrenia back in 2011 when I was 22 years old. I’m 35 years old now. The doctors said I would have gotten schizophrenia anyways. I’m trying not to engage in my delusions and self-identify so much as a schizophrenic person.
I also may have tried salvia back then, but don’t really remember.
I think it’s common to have memory loss and problems with memory due to schizophrenia.
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1 day I heard a voice from God. The next day I was at the clinic getting help.
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mine started young. i remember having 3 physical illnessess at the same time (strep and mono and pnumonia i think) around age 8 then shortly after that i hit my head pretty hard and by age 9 i was paranoid. by 11 i was in the hospital and on antipsychotics.
I had to have 4 courses of accutane for acne. That stuff really did a number on me
I started talking to my microwave because I thought it was bugged with a microphone from my boss. He gave me the microwave right after he got robbed in his home and I thought he though I was in on it. nope…just sz.
I took LSD and then when I came down I became severely depressed for many months until I became psychotic
My doctor says the stress of moving across the country on my own with no family around caused so much stress, plus being predisposed was the perfect recipe for me to develop SZA
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It silently over powered my free will. I was not able to choose
I smoked cannabis daily for an about three month then I stopped and smoked just irregularly. The last one made me paranoid the I slowly got schizophrenia. Took me four years to realise .
I think that it is alcohol which triggered my Sz.
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I had moved far away. I was working. They fired someone I had a crush on, who kept the job interesting. I heard a voice say; what a jerk. I thought they were talking about the supervisor. I just heard voices on and off. In the beginning they were mostly amusing.
I was on Facebook and I wrote a post then I thought tila tequila was talking to me. After that the universe was talking to me everywhere. That was 10 years ago.
I was just drunk with 19 years back in 1988 and got lost disoriented in Melbourne overseas ( I was living in Germany back than). They had nothing better to do than medicate me and misdiagnose me paranoid schizophrenia. It mentally affected me over the years and I experienced schizophrenic symptoms.
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I got mine back when you had to start it with a hand crank. I’m jealous of people who have SZ with electric starters.
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Its started when i got mobbed at my job. My co workers played alot of jokes on me and.some gaslighting. I think it triggered my sz.