How many episodes have u had and how many years since u were diagnosed?
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Almost 3 yrs since ive been dx’d. 2 major breaks right before my dx, 2 since. I have 1 Almost annually. Here is hoping i dont have one this year. Last years was the worst yet and still working thru my remaining issues from it.
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well ive been hospitalized 6 times
but one of them was for suicidal ideology rather than psychosis (although i did think i was jesus at the time, i think a delusion is different than a psychotic break)
but ive had others that i wasnt hospitalized for
a lot
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3 acute psychotic episodes. many suicidal episodes. lingering psychosis, etc.
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Diagnosed @ age 19 with psychotic disorder and anxiety disorder, which changed to depression w psychotic features and PTSD age 20, age 21 (my current age) was decided possibly schizoaffective, meaning I could really be either schizoaffective or have psychotic depression, they’re almost the same thing.
I’ve had symptoms of psychosis my whole life, first major episode though I was 15 or 16. Have never had an episode as bad as my first but I had another one summer after my freshmen year of college, and another one summer after my sophomore year of college. So in all I’ve had 3 major episodes. When I’m off meds I experience ongoing psychotic symptoms but during episodes they become extreme and I become delusional.
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@anna do you only get psychotic when youre depressed? that would be psychotic depression. with sza you can have psychosis with and without mood symptoms
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Once a year since I was little…at least…
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I have no idea how many psychotic episodes I had, I was ill since my early teens, diagnosed at 18, in hospital four times, then in remission at 22, then relapsed at 28, back on meds, in hospital two more times. Now I am 32. I don’t think I was ever hospitalised for psychosis though, more for depression, agitation and self harm. Can’t be sure. Nowadays my psychotic episodes are very short and mild so hospital isn’t so necessary. My meds are keeping me out of it.
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I live in a kind of quasi psychotic state. I think crazy things are going on, but I have no trouble meeting the expectations others have of me. I have been in a full blown psychosis several times. I never kept track of how many.
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I do experience with and without mood symptoms. My depression doesn’t seem to always line up with my psychosis which is why the last psychiatrist I saw questioned my diagnosis.
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I have had one psychotic episode of psychosis. Its been a year since I had my first episode. Im 29 now.
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I was diagnosed in March 1976.
Psychotic episodes? It’s complicated.
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I have had three actual full-on psychotic breaks. There have been three other times when I was in pretty bad prodrome (most recently last June), probably not far from decompensating, but I recognized it and got into a hospital before it could get completely out of control. I have more minor underlying psychotic symptoms the majority of the time. I was diagnosed psychotic for the first time in 2003, when I was 23, at the time of my first psychotic break. My dx at that time was bipolar with psychosis, later changed to bipolar-type sza. I have been hospitalized ten times, the rest being strictly for suicidal ideation.
Never had one 15151
Uhhh this is difficult because I feel like my entire childhood and adolescence was one loooong psychotic episode. I’ve been delusional, dealt with hallucinations and paranoia since I was 5…it reached a climax of sorts when I was around 15 or 16 and I went completely bonkers…awful stuff happening to me…then I gained insight and started fighting to stay in the real world. Once that happened I only had 3 more major episodes, but a ton of tinier ones (major ones lasting months, tinier ones lasting 2 weeks or less). None of them were ever as bad as that first big one.
I wasn’t diagnosed with anything until I was 19, as I learned to keep my experiences secret over time, (until I literally couldn’t bear to do so anymore) and my parents were strongly anti-mental health field. My dad still tells me he thinks it’s bogus and that medication is “hoo doo snake oil crap” but he supports my decisions at least. I’m 21 now.
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1 psychotic break and not yet diagnosed.
one episode in 2010
I had 3 episodes which they required hospitalization, I think I am always psychotic even on meds my thoughts are racing, I cannot concentrate and my mind is always feeding me thoughts. I am not dz as sz. I want to become free of the meds
Just 2 for me. 15151
Two out of touch and hospitalized.
One not the right med and slightly strange with lots of side effects.