Or before the symptoms got to a point where something was clearly up (clear to you or to someone else)?
I’m interested 
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I was prodromal for 2 years before finally snapping from a piracetam overdose.
About a year and a half, until I ended up in a crisis state because of the hallucinations.
Few months before I realized it’s not other people talking about me. 
I was like yo I got so many haters now what’s the deal. Hahah ain’t nobody thinking about me
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Probably 1-1.5 years before I got my sz diagnosis.
6 months before being diagnosed. I was catatonic during my break, so it was pretty apparent something was off
I was okay, just depressed and mildly delusional, but then when I became convinced people were trying to get me to commit suicide I got out of hand.
For bipolar it was years, but BP with psychotic features took 3 weeks which was when I told my dr about the hallucinations. That dx turned into sZa over time as the hallucinations did not go away.
im not sure, nothing was really wrong with me. I just thought I had bad anxiety but they diagnosed sz. the hallucinations started after my diagnosis. I think I was 26 when I was diagnosed, had spent years working before that. no reason for me to see a psychiatrist, I did have some paranoid thoughts before but nothing an imaginative mind wouldn’t make up, no reason to be on meds at that point.
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I snapped at a day in june 2011 but i was diagnosed with ptsd/anxiety disorder at the time. In march? 2012 i truly crashed so badly that i was brought to the closed ward right away. Thats when they first came with the label psychotic.
I had my first psychotic episode/hospitalization was in July of 2008 and got diagnosed with adjustment disorder. I kept having breaks and then was diagnosed with delusional disorder sometime in 2009 during my second hospitalization. It was during my 3rd hospitalization that I was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in January or February of 2010.
They don’t give the diagnosis out easily in my opinion. It took me years to realize I was actually sick. I didn’t figure out I actually had schizophrenia until 2014. But after realizing that I know that’s always what it was. Starting in 2008.
In my experience if you think you have it you probably don’t. Because it never occurred to me that I could actually really be sick even with diagnosis, hospitalizations, medication and symptoms. But if you do you will probably have a better outcome because insight into your illness is key to recovery.
I have been treated for psych issues since I was 16, but I was diagnose with sza when I was 37
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I had insight into my illness for most of it starting with the voices and hallucinations, but yeah my delusions I had no idea I had them, neither my catatonia
I didn’t figure out I was hallucinating until 2012. At first I just had delusions and I only figured out I was hallucinating because a little girl came and talked to me through a wall. If I would have figured that out earlier maybe I would have had better insight.
No telling how many times I hallucinated before that and didn’t know it. My trauma could all be imagined. It’s scary to think about.
I still struggle with delusions but my hallucinations are mostly under control with medication.
About 2 years before I got a PD Dx, then I was medicated and stable for several years then I tried to go off meds and went super psycho and that only took a few weeks/months to Dx with SZ they suspect the PD was a misdiagnosis to begging with, but we’ll never know for sure. Same treatment either way.
I just couldn’t work, go to school, or do anything. I had psychomotor R word. Everything took so much effort and I was slowed down. Got on disability and that helped a lot. Went down hill pretty fast. Didn’t know what was wrong with me.
I get delusional only. No hallucinations whatsoever. I had severe negative symptoms and Dp/Dr.
Delusions like simulation theory are unfalsifiable. At least right now…
I tend to read into my thoughts and believe my delusions. Sometimes, I snap out of it.
My current delusion is I’m quasi/semi immortal living in a simulation and have time traveled in a past life/alternative reality.
Same my hallucinations and voices aren’t bad on meds, but my paranoia and delusions are still pretty bad. Plus we caught it so early that the illness didn’t have enough time to be serve. And that I can thank my meds and my parents.
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I’ve been in the mental health system since I was 17 but I didn’t get diagnosed sza until I was 44. I’m 48 now.
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4 years I went undiagnosed worst time of my life