Long enough to know better…
Since I was a wee lad of 19. (I’m 56 now if anyone’s keeping count.)
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I started hearing voices and having other symptoms when I was 23. Went from undifferentiated psychosis, to toxic psychosis from amphetamine use, to major depression with psychotic features, finally to schizo-affective at 27. Re-diagnosed as schizophrenic at 30. I am 48 now.
I have no idea when I was diagnosed. Possibly my first 201 in May 2014. Started seeing a psychiatrist in June 2012 but I could never get a straight answer out of him. I know things went very wrong in 2007 when I was 17, that’s when the paranoia, the delusions and the catatonia got out of control, but due to circumstances I was not medicated and just had to deal with it. But looking back, I think it started, if not outright sz, something that led to sz, at 16 in 2006 when I did some irrational behavior to myself
20 years …
Diagnosed age 18 but noticed stuff since age 10
I’ve had it since I was 17. I’m 34 now. But I was not diagnosed with sza until I was 22. My diagnosis now is sz. But I still lean a bit towards the first diagnosis because I seem so depressed at times.
All my life.
I was a wierd kid!
N I suffered.
Although there is a picture of me with a group of other kids and I was topless and I look so relaxed happy n cool n confident and I looked happy and bubbly n outgoing and I seemed to have friends laugh with me .
I think that picture was taken in Sweden or Germany and I might of been four.
A few years later a picture was taken with awful people stuck up and I looked like “sorry I exist “ that picture was taken in Sweden and I was around eight at least.
I was bullied as a child and teenager.
My mum was funny in this stuck up community.
She listened to midnight oil and everyone was horrified.
She listened to other music too and a girl thought my mum was a punk.
We were poor back hen my ma n I.
Empty fridge n worms and I had apathy etc
Really aweful people there.
I never got in with any types of people and still do not.
I loved a couple of British boys they were different than the other ones living there but they did not stay in the area for long.
My mum said I am not educated enough to have those boys now adults as my friends.
Was funny the eldest brother was so bossy and me and his brother would tease him about it.
But something happened between Australia and Sweden moving then that f##### me up .
I had apathy felt hopeless etc
And if I mentioned it I got in trouble.
No councillor could help me and in terms one was privately paid so she went along with what the person paying her said and I was attacked by all of them in the stupid vounciling
It was unprofessional and bullying by adults to a then teenager.
Naaaa I still do not fit in with any people or group.
I can suffer immensely having dinner with my boyfriends friends and family.
I endure because I love him and want to marry him and spend the rest of my life with him.
Thing is I am here by myself.
My neigher has gone all wierd and we need to re bond.
A girl throws her self at my man and is all over him and they cuddled for like five minutes which I am not ok with but he does not seem to care.
Like if you do not like it then f### off…
Why would my man not care how I feel…
What if i had friends and it was a man who cuddled me for five minutes rubbing his etection on me etc …
Maybe he would not like it.
But I came here by myself to be with him and I do not want to feel bullied and disrespected.
I have been bullied my whole life so I truly have had enough of that sh ##
His friends,dogs and family could break us up …
So easily?
Why not change a behaviour and be willing to do so if it upsets your partner…
If I speak up about it I will have all his friends and family attacking me as I am alone here and my neigher would not perhaps be there…to stick up for me and what I say.
But I think I may always of been schizophrenia
As a toddler I was apparently adored by strangers and I was so outgoing I would make a friend in anyone I saw…
Something broke me down and ruined me and I feel like myself more these days thankfully but still not right.
People I love I can suffer being around too.
I get others in my body intense and hysterical etc sometimes.
Baaaa
I suffered yesterday at bbq.
But I contributed with a birthday cake and salad.
I remember hearing voices as a kid but never really cared for them. I was diagnosed 15 years ago. I am 30 now…
It’s been 9.5 years for me.
almost a year now…
I wad diagnosed when I was about 16, I’m 35 now…so my entire adult life I’e lived with it. I have quiet period’s thanks to medication treatment but when I get to stressed symptoms start peaking up. The more stressed I get the more agitated the symptoms get.
I was originally diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, but in later adult life I’ve been diagnosed as Schizo-affective
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This 
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Officially it will be 8 years in April.
I have been diagnosed with sz for two years. My current psychiatrist and my therapist both say I have sza, bipolar type.
Two years is not much. I remember i was very scared. Mainly cause i didnt know what i fell into. Now i feel like at home with sz. Its another world a patient has to get to know.
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Why don’t you go to a pdoc and get diagnosed, @anon20742722?
I do go to one but it’s just bipolar with psychotic features right now
put on medication for psychotic symptoms in august 2016, officially diagnosed in february 2017. ive had very mild benign hallucinations and on again off again paranoid delusions about aliens since i was a little kid though
factually
i also cant believe i have been with scz for eight years
i feel 2010 like it was yesterday
but i am trying to live the present as much as i can
After diagnosis eight years. I am living with this illness for a long time. It does not get easier by time.