I agree with you. I do well to let haters hate while I become great(er).
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Itās probably been going on at least 10 years for me. I got diagnosed about 4-5 years ago and have been on drugs (abilify) since. I did some pretty bizarre ass crap before I got diagnosed, though. I think I got fired or quit eleven different jobs in about 5 years, hit some girl (WTF?) in a bar and was sent to jail for a couple of days, etc. etc. Now, although, I can act normal. Thank god for abilify.
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I am diagnosed with schizophrenia on 2009 January when I was 18,itās been 6 years already.There was a lot of depression and bad moments the first 4 years of my diagnosis,then i decided to stop medication on 2012 May and had kept going without medication for 10 months before I was put back on medication as I been causing trouble and distress to my family and work colleague around meā¦On 2013 November came the day of a huge improvement when
My psychiatrist added Mirtazapine to my daily regime.For 2 months I didnāt feel any benefit and wanted to stop but my doctor insist that I continue and luckily I didā¦Mirtazapine had stopped my depression(I used to think itās negative symptoms) and my life functioning had improve a lot.I am grateful and happy,I will continue to work hard in life and also more importantly keep a low stress,less expectation and simple life with positivity to reduce the chance of mental relapse
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The way my parents tell itā¦ they are beginning to think I had my first break at 5 years old. I do remember having a physical fight with an imaginary friend before I was 10.
It seemed I was always seeing what no one else could and hearing what no one else could. Having a little harder time as time went on.
14 to 16 was one wild head circus. My parents did their bestā¦ child therapistā¦ clinicsā¦ family therapyā¦ but no one wanted to diagnose me when I was so youngā¦ it was always down to something else. (plus I had started drugs)
I landed in hospital at 17 and that was when I got the label. Iām now 30ā¦ Itās taken a lot of work and medsā¦ and therapyā¦ and helpā¦ but I think Iām doing better now.
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23 years ago age 17
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Iām happy for all you guys, that you made it! I still havenāt made it yet, I have all negative and positive symptoms, and also depression, but when I was on antidepressant my psychosis got very much worse. I also gained a lot of weight on an antidepressant, and thatās why I got depressed again! Donāt know what to do!
I donāt know if this is universal, but regular exercise and eating right helped me out quite a bit.
i honestly cant remember anymore over 5 years
I donāt think excersice helps me. Eating right sometimes does, but I just have too much appetite for fat, to be able to eat healthy food.
Itā's ok if you canāt remember.
I know for sure that I was clinically depressed at age 19 and suicidal. Looking back I donāt know if I heard voices, my memory of that time period is really out of whack although some of the things I remember donāt seem possible I could have been delusional at the time. In my 30ās, voices were so normal for me. I had no idea how long they had been going on I had been coping fine probably by keeping so regimented a schedule, it wasnāt until full blown psychosis when I was seeing and feeling other people that werenāt there that I realized that it wasnāt normal and the depression hit really hard. I got my dx at 32 after 2 years of hiding it, not telling them through the hospitalizations that I was hallucinating.
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I got panic attacks at 13, and diagnosed sz at 18, that was twelve years ago now.
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