How long have you had schizophrenia?

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About 8 years for me.

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Although I was diagnosed probably 6 or 7 years ago.

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I started having symptoms in my late 20ā€™s back in the late 1980ā€™s I wasnā€™t diagnosed until 1995 I think. So itā€™s been decades. I was really out of it when I was diagnosed. I went to see the psychiatrist at my momā€™s insistance.

I always wonder what the deal is on how old you were when you came down with Sz. I know the doctors ask you this. I really didnā€™t worry about my age when I was diagnosed though.

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I started having symptoms at 6 years old. I had my first psychotic break at age 23 in 1983. But I wasnā€™t diagnosed sza until 1993 at age 33.

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Your an optimistic newbie arenā€™t you? Hereā€™s some advice. Get the schizophrenia down to where you are comfortable and donā€™t expect miracles. And then focus on everything else. In most cases schizophrenia is forever.

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Since early 2019.

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Itā€™s a business that cannot be done,a lesson that last a lifetime

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I showed very small signs of it as a child. The symptoms started getting much, much worse around age 24. Three bad things happened that made things go downhill. I accepted the bad things, but the illness never left. I donā€™t know why. Iā€™m 47 now, and still suffering. Meds take the edge off the worst of it. Iā€™m lucky I can live on my own. Iā€™m not the best at cooking though.

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I have had schizophrenia for 26 years , i am now 46 years old, !

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I first went psychotic 23 years agoā€¦at age 28. now I am 51. The first years were tryingā€¦but I switched meds when I was 32 and since then I am pretty stable and functional

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I was diagnosed in the army at basic training in south carolina at age 19. like 2005

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Since I was 18 in 2003, but first symptoms came in 1998 before I turned 14. Iā€™m 37 now

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I was diagnosed in 1984.

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If the schizoaffective dx is correct then 11 years.

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Since 1991 when I was 35. So thirty years. My mother was around the same age when she was diagnosed.

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so far for half my life/16 years old was when I got the diagnosis.

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