It’s going on thirty years now.
I was 15 when I was first diagnosed. I was really out of it then, I thought I was whatever book/movie character I was interested back then. I’m now 33, I’d say about 98% of the time I can tell what’s a delusion or Hallucination. But I still have some minor symptoms…like the voices are bad (not always negative though I have a few frequent negative voices) I mean bad by they are very distracting.
Symptomatic in 2005, i was diagnosed in 2006
I was first diagnosed with severe depression when I was 13 in 1997. Later that year it was schizoaffective, PTSD, and anxiety. I’ve been through many diagnoses over the years, but I’ve always had psychosis and anxiety. For years the depression was really bad, and then when I was 26 the depression went away and I got a full blast of psychosis. My diagnosis became paranoid schizophrenia. My last pdoc changed it to schizoaffective because I used to have depression. I’m 30 now and have been struggling with mental illness for 17 years. That’s a long time. In my mid twenties I went off all meds and was stable for a while. I crashed pretty hard and went from living on my own to moving back in with my mom. I’m finally getting better again. 
34 years ago when I was 19. Paranoid schizophrenia.
Of course. Now that you have a girlfriend that’s a necessity. If you get my drift, lol.
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