For so long I’ve felt like the only one who lived with this illness, at least a few years now. I figured I couldn’t find the help I needed online plus I was constantly being tested by my auditorial hallucinations so going online to search for the right medications really was the last thing on my mind. I’ve been on meds most of my life, I just never took them but I left and did a 14 year term in prison at the age of 14 and got out in 2011 , thus being the reason I was already prescribed medications. I’m curious as to how long was it before any of you were diagnosed after the symptoms became noticeable?
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I was 23 when I had a serious depressive break. Schizophrenia was mentioned but I gave up the prozac to smoke weed which seemed to help. That didn’t in the end and I ended up going psychotic at 29!
I sometimes wish I’d had a light dose of meds way back then. Might have been a different story but I see you’ve been through the mill. We can’t focus on the past. Just the now and move on!
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I think I honestly had my first breaks at 13 with delusions, but I didn’t catch on until I started hallucinating in November 2016. Then I got briefly diagnosed as SZ-spectrum NOS in March 2017, but they rescinded that this year and say they don’t know and labeled me “high functioning psychosis” instead.
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Yes sir, I’m still trying to figure it out but the past is the past and now I’m solo, by myself but I’m used to being by myself, most of my life has been in a cell and never knew I suffered from this illness. It’s crazy knowing how suicide was always a option for me because I couldn’t understand my symptoms.
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