How long have you been suffering?

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I have been suffering since I was 19 years old. Does your age affect how you get through your suffering. I’m am feeling better than I was when I was 19.

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Since age 21 , my life have got better but not so good to talk about it.

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Since age of 30, I’m 41 now. I was prodromal since age of 25.

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I started needing mental health services around age 13 (when my bulimia started).

I didn’t start til I was 17. Kept my bulimia a secret so no one got me help.

By 19 I was on Prozac, Zyprexa was added not long after it came out when I was about 24.

My only hospitalization was not long before I turned 24.

I’m 53 now.

Since menopause I feel the worst I ever have despite excellent care. Will be discussing Invega Sustenna in 3 hours with my pnurse.

I am pretty much incapable of reliably taking APs, even in weekly pillboxes with alarms set. I just don’t think I need them even though it’s obvious I do. So I don’t take them correctly. A depot may be a game changer for me.

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From age 13 suffered social anxiety, withdrawn, mood swings. Age 15 paranoia started. Age 17 , voices, delusions. Age 18 diagnosed schiz
Age 51 had lots of ups and downs

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I’ve been suffering since 2013 a few months after I turned 23.

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Too long, give me a break already :face_with_spiral_eyes::partying_face:

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I have had this cold since Tuesday and now I know what it feels like after you get bitten by a zombie and you’re turning into one.

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When I was fifteen I got hit with these really crushing anxiety attacks. It was a social phobia in a big way. The term “anxiety attack” sounds innocuous, but they’re total misery.

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I’m not really suffering; at least compared to when I first got sick. That was real suffering. One thing I noticed is that for years I was always worried I would have to go back in the hospital but I don’t really worry about that anymore.

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I’ve had issues since 2017 but I suffer much less lately!! I hope everyone gets better :pray:t4:

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Almost 12 years now. Things have gotten better in some ways, worse in others. Terrible anxiety has persisted the whole time.

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I think it has been very hard to get through my suffering. Are you in the same boat? I have been suffering for a very long time. It has been a miracle that I have pulled through my suffering.

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You are a strong person Jake
I know you’ve been through a long haul

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Thank you @FreeLunch

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I think I was still 24 when this whole thing started… 7 years give or take half a year. I don’t know if I would call most of it suffering, it’s been a journey, a very lonely one, but so far I feel like I’ve managed to keep my head more or less out of the water, I am much more scared for my latter years as I feel like I have burned all my cognitive leeway already and that all my social interactions are going to dwindle into oblivion leaving me a husk of a man in the latter half of my life. That’s what scares me, that’s when I’ll suffer, right now I am just watching a train wreck in slow motion trying to enjoy what I can on the way to the pain. It’s weird how realizing your life is only going to get worse makes you appreciate the present more. I am not suffering, I am enjoying the few luxuries life hasn’t taken from me yet. One thing I promised myself is to never one day look back and realize I didn’t appreciate something enough when I had it, 31 years and I still have a clean record. I don’t plan to break my streak.

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Since 2012. 151515

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Hey @anon57786250 i like your new profile pic!

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