How old were you when you had your first schizophrenic experience?

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I was about 15. I thought my parents worked for the government. I didn’t realize I had schizophrenia until I was around 20 years-old.

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early twenties, but it was mild, just some thoughts that newspapers and poems and stuff were all about me. I thought I was just being self centered, blew it off. But the nagging thoughts were always there. Not til anger in bed forced me to go on of meds, uncontrollable anger, forced speech. Nothing physical though. Then meds took it away.

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It’s hard to tell. I saw shadow people a couple times. My mind was crazy hypothetical but I still knew what was real.

In my family(as kids) we joked that our dad was in the CIA or mafia, it wasn’t a serious suggestion, but we entertained it anyway.

Philip K Dick said some things about schizoid type personalities that I related to very strongly in my past.

Like being in like with a girl and spending all day trying to figure out how to win her over, only never taking risks because the fantasy was as important as any level of success and rejection would negate both.

Perpetual dreamer. That was pretty much me.

I was about 21 or 22 when I started to get truly delusional. Moving away from a hard science perspective to explore other things and ■■■■■■ everything up from there.

I smoked a lot of weed in the last decade.

Paranoia though, I remember feeling a lot of that. Morel like anxiety and awkwardness. Over analysis and concern with the progression of things. More of the PKD schizoid type stuff.

Anyways PKD wasn’t a doctor, just a skeptic speculator on those kinds of things.

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Twenty eight…

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I had my first one when I was 2. according to my mom I became hysterical and ripped out my hair and claimed there were creatures chasing me.

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  1. I had manic symptoms before that, but because of drug use it caused early onset psychosis.
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Fourteen years old*

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According to my parents… my first break was when I was 5…

I was happy… happy… happy… then I snapped and went into some sort of melt down rage for hours and hours until I fell asleep for 8 hours… my parents say when I woke up… it was sort of like I was drunk… slow to respond… didn’t really understand what was being said to me… not too steady on the feet…

little by little healed from that… then back to my hyper happy go lucky self…

7 got into a fist fight with an imaginary friend… that was a huge night that ended with me cutting my fingers open.

10 started talking to God…

14 started getting sonic hearing… became afraid and weary of everyone… started getting paranoid and emphatic about everything…

14 to 17 was a huge wild ride of head circus… hospitalized when I was 17…

My parents were with me… they took me to doctors… and therapist… and family therapist… and on and on… but I still got worse and worse.

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So how are you now?

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Oh, not too good. I’ve been in the psyche ward 7 times in less than 3 years. Currently I’m battling paranoia and irritability and my lithium is most likely causing thyroid problems.

Edit: don’t know if you were talking to me lol

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I’m 30 now…

I was diagnosed with ADHD
OCD
PTSD

Sz wasn’t really mentioned until I was 17. But I think my parents knew my brain wasn’t right.

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I can talk to you if you want. You say you’ve been in the psychward and battling some paranoia and irritability while having a thyroid problem.

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So you’ve got ADHD, OCD, PTSD and SZ

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Hope they get your meds straightened around.

I would ask for a consult.

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The thyroid problem is recent (past month). Lots of physical symptoms. But my paranoia is beyond obnoxious. I have to make a bed in my parents floor and even then, when I close my eyes I see things looking at me and I feel a presence. I stay up until I get a migraine and am too exhausted to care about the beings in the room.

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I’m getting tested Monday for further results on my thyroid. I see my therapist and psychiatrist this week :slight_smile:

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No… as I was growing… docs handed out a lot of different diagnoses.

I think they were afraid to put the sz label on me while I was young. So child psychologist put a lot of different labels on me.

My official diagnosis at 17 was undifferentiated Sz… it hasn’t altered much from that.

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So youve got alot pf physical symptoms and your paranoia keeps you up all night until you fall asleep from exhaustion.

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Sometimes I have to wait until sunrise

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So you’re diagnosed SZ now but wasn’t in the past because you think you’re doctors didn’t want to put that label on you.