I was untreated for 2.5 years. I sometimes get mad because I feel like if I got help sooner I would have turned out better. At the time I didn’t think I needed antipsychotics and didn’t realize just how much they would help me. Also wasn’t a fan of taking medication that blocked dopamine.
8 years but I only got manic-depressive neve fully psychotic, getting full blown psychosis was what got me treatment.
I was misdiagnosed with depression at about 19.
I was correctly diagnosed with schizophrenia at 39.
So that’s 20 years.
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4.5 years between hospitalization for psychosis and receiving actual treatment.
I survived untreated for about 35 years since my first dx. I wish now that I had stayed on meds because the road of life could have been a lot more smooth.
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My break down was sudden. I was normal. I was treated days after break down.
Within months I was on medicine.
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Started being paranoid about 20 after smoking a lot of weed, thinking my family were poisoning me. Then living abroad, I really fell ill. 30 now and been in treatment for 5 years
I went downhill fast. In less than a week and was hospitalized. So I would say about a week.
A suicide attempt is a great ice breaker for getting treatment.
I went straight from the OR to the nuthouse.
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My prodromal phase started during the 2nd semester of my freshman year of college (2010). I didn’t have a full blown psychotic break until 2016, and was diagnosed in early 2017. So roughly 6 years
I had depression for most of my life. I was diagnosed with schizoeffective disorder at age 32. So a good long while.
Maybe 6 months.
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6 months but the symptoms of isolation stated 1.5 years back before me acting out on the things happening in my head
A couple weeks, maybe a month. I told them about my history with psychedelics so I was put on APs right quick.
do you still take APs? Can you function without them?
It’s six years before I was diagnosed with schizophrenia and got treated.
I was treated on a very low dose antipsychotic for twenty years. I almost made recovery to where I wanted to work and rely on my work for money and get off dissability. I then relapsed and my old Psychiatrist passed away and a new Psychiatrist took over his patients. The new Psychiatrist told me I was under medicated and then added other medications and I feel more confident then ever with this illness. I kind of wish I found this medication combo about way more recently.
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Do you find that you got worse over the period of time where you were untreated?
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I think I got worse whenever I was stressed out, and aging led to being stressed easier.
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I went untreated without any meds at all for five years. But I was treated with the wrong meds for many, many years. Not my pdocs fault. The right meds for me just hadn’t been developed yet. I’m on the right ones now.
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