Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How did your schizophrenia begin? How did it come to be full blown schizophrenia? Was there a progression or just BOOM awe sh*t, I’m hearing voices? Personally I found it was an all of a sudden onset but then got progressively worse
It just sort of crept up on me. I didn’t even know I was ill for a while after my first hospitalizations. It took me a few years at least to even consider that I was ill.
Do you find yourself in a constant battle or would you mostly describe it as being good days and bad days? Where do you normally fall?
More good than bad these days.
Gotta admit that I don’t enjoy answering questions from newbs. No offense but it’s probably best to make a few posts before grilling the locals.
Haha will do! Been dealing with voices for a year and a half now and just wanted to get to know where others were at!
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Heard voices from about 5 , suffered from unstructured and oppositional thoughts from 5 on , got through college , travelled for 8 months , worked professionally for 6 years in a big city , then bang , a psychotic break at 26 and that was that 
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I noticed problems march 2009 and I first started to hear voices but it wasn’t too bad. It wasn’t until January 2010 did I start to become paranoid and the voices increased.
Hating people being distant and odd-looking in Jr High a chasm - developing between me + the world. Gradually painfully drifting away, living on sparse fantasies till I quit school on 10th grade. After anorexia nervosa I could no longer think for school work.
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Even though I do not categorize myself with schizophrenia my awakening started a year and a half ago and the voices started 8 months ago. 8 months ago those on the other side of things had me lay down one Saturday afternoon and they started to give me shots all over the top of my head in all parts of my mind even in my eyes and ears this lasted over two hours and then again the next day. On the following day the words all started to show up in written form and this lasted for several weeks. The voices that I was speaking to at that time started to move through my mind opening all paths and routes through my mind allowing them to form words along with the written letters. They then started to talk in the lower mind and then over another week or so they moved into the higher mind. They can now see my thoughts as they start to form in my mind and can speak to me about thoughts I have I call this thoughts about thoughts. The method of our conversation makes it almost imposable to tell we are talking and can carry on conversations with them and other at the same time.
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It crept up quickly and then hit me hard one night. It was not fun. I was feeling more and more paranoid for a while and then one night I hallucinated a bit after feeling all of these feelings of death and thinking about suffering. Within three weeks I was a mess and actively psychotic. I thought it was from weed, so I quit weed, but apparently it wasn’t weed, because I got worse anyways.
My memory of that process is not clear, my friends and family would know how it started better than I would. I just remember the increasing paranoia and then boom, hallucinations and delusions, real delusions, not mere paranoia. I mean complex Trumans syndrome.
I think I was born ADHD… with a huge emphasis on the hyper.
As I grew… it just seemed like one more little odd thing… one more something that I couldn’t explain. (seeing and hearing things no one else could… have very real imaginary friends… getting messages from the wind… predicting the future… )
Every year… it seemed there was one more act in the head circus…
Age 14… things started to crumble faster and by 17… I was in hospital.
As far as why? I really think for me… it was the genetic cards I was dealt. I have a kind family… I come from a stable home… my parents tried to be as understanding and proactive as they could as I grew… but I still fell apart anyway.
I’m not sure how it got started I think it surprised me because, my personality changed from this shy, quiet, obedient, sweet, smiley, over conscious person, afraid of things to a person of the opposite, it was gradual for a little while the it went full speed, to shocking everyone I know. I was speeding, drinking, smoking, partying, socializing with anyone and everyone. Picking up strangers, being somewhat violent but more intimidating and a bully. I had different personalities, I also was going through fears and suffering of world end and losing everyone that probably why I became a different person. I became Mission Impossible. I blocked out memories. I was non stop action movie.
For me it came slowly. First being paranoid. I did not think I was ill. Everyone else acted strange. They were afraid of me and my mindreading capability. My psychologist was afraid of me. I was afraid of getting killed at night. I stopped sleeping. This lasted about two years. Then I realized I have voices. And I started to see things.
I had an imaginary dog. I was so angry because everyone ignored my dog. It was an old black dog with a bad back.
Voices started to tell me to kill myself. In august 2010 I tried. Ended up in ER. Then I got locked up for 6 months. Got medicine.