I’m glad to hear your doing better now @anon22322466 . Good stuff
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My prodromal phase lasted from age 17 to 23, so, six years.
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I’m surprised how long the lead-in phase is for a lot of us. But I never saw this coming in a million years
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I honestly don’t know how long I was in the prodromal phase of schizophrenia. It’s really hard for me to nail down when symptoms started so I can’t really answer this question, but I wasn’t diagnosed until my early 40’s so I would not be surprised if the prodromal phase lasted 20 years in my case.
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Wow. Yeah, I can see that. Mine lasted about 13 years, but I never related it to schizophrenia in any way
I wasn’t diagnosed until about 48
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I lived an isolated life since about 19.
I mean I always had about 1 friend though
Anxiety was the main challenge
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He was probably talking crazy but he had no obvious symptoms when I met him.
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It was hard to tell for me. I was a drug addict right before my first episode at 16 years old
Then I recovered from that which was drug-induced psychosis (The pdoc wanted to diagnose me as sz then but my key worker was against it)
By 19 psychosis and my experiences were forgotten as I came off meds
Fast foward to 22/23 I was out of my mind until 25 - then it was a sz dx and full time meds
I have had a lot of relapses, but it was from med compliance issues with side effects etc
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IDK? I started having symptoms at age 12, but I didn’t get diagnosed with schizoaffective until age 23. Long time to be seeing “ghosts” and portraits’ eyes moving, extreme paranoia, and the delusions. Oh, man. Those delusions.
I went a loooooong time before being put on an AP.
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I would say i had mine 10 years, where i lost the wife, the job and the place i was living in. I couldnt be assessed properly cos i was always presenting drunk at the hospital - and had the infamous BPD diagnoisis, so was seen more as a pain in the arse.
After waiting for 5 months to see a psychitrist - it took them to witness me in relapse before i got the sz diagnosis. Ive always reckoned they made me suffer for a few months, just to make sure it was schizophrenia and not alcohol related.
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5 years. 145321
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Well it started when I was 13 and lasted until I was around 21 so 8 years I guess.
When this stage started my mom thought I had depression so I was taking meds for depression since I was 13.
I eventually stopped taking anti depressants when I was around 20 or 21, which lead to me taking very long walks trough the neighbourhood. In one of those walks I ended up in a fight were I broke my elbow, it was me against 5 or 6 kids, don’t remember how many were. Then after I had a elbow surgery and left the hospital I started hearing voices, which lead to my 1st and only psychosis and the rest is history
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Ayyye! How’ve you been man? I had a feeling of impending doom for about 7 years and people kept telling me not to worry about or take my Xanax some shiz like that. But yeah I’m pretty sure that was the precursor to my brain explodeing at work
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I’m sorry that happened to you that must of been tough I dont know how I would cope either tbh
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I honestly dont know. I think mine started in childhood and ended in schizophrenia when I was about 16 after I left school I think It was all too traumatic for me I’m a highly sensitive person
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Sorry to hear that. I stopped school in 9th grade due to behavior and emotional problems but I never thought twice bout it. I also started doing hard drugs when I was 13. I honestly believe if you have it your brain anything that causes a huge change or something very traumatic if you have it, it’s gonna surface. But I’m not a doctor or smart so do t quote me pls. Hope you feel better now tho @Imsobored
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Thank you I appreciate that. I do wish I was normal though . It seems like everyone is just blinded by everything mean while I have 20 20 vision regarding feeling everything making me feel terrible
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I have a lot of apathy for certain things… but if someone I care about or something is going through some ■■■■ I wish I could take their pain…like a pain sponge haha @anon15119022
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Yeah me too but it doesn’t work like that unfortunately
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Lol yeah I know. Just the delusional side of my brain. I can usually tell what’s real or not now. But when I was bad it was real bad I can’t believe I’m alive. I would hear someone telling me I could fly or or that “they were going to find me” but I would just jump off things no matter how many times I figured out that I in fact could not fly. It’s a weird sickness and well it’s just not fair on a lot of way. I’m convinced I’m being punished for something
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