In my case I think I was 25, I don´t remember very well.
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I thought I killed my cousin with my thoughts when I was 11.
I believe that I was around 6 years old when I had my first schizophrenia experience. Maybe even younger, because I recall being younger than six years old and watching my parents behave in distorted ways. And then I saw my dad shoving his head down into his neck while his arm muscles twitched like they were going to burst.
I was 24 years old. September 28, 2012. I know this date by heart now, because September 29, 2012 I was picked up by police and carted off to a mental hospital thanks to idiots that reported me as a threat when I was minding my own business, talking to myself along a walk by the beach.
One man actually attempted to fight me that day. I don’t understand what his problem was.
People like to fight me too. Any day I walk down the street.
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I had panic attacks for five years before I was diagnosed with sz when I was 18. But I remember sometime in my early teens I heard voices that caused panic attacks, so my first sz episode must have been sometime around 14 or 15. I remember one thing the voices said quite a few times was I would be sick before I climb down the stairs (at school in a crowded passage). I wasn’t ever sick, but I always believed the voices so I tried to obey them. I did climb down the stairs, but had a full blown panic attack trying to disobey the voices. After high school I had a breakdown and sz was diagnosed.
21 year old. Did a lot of pot, salvia, alcohol, and energy drinks. Ended up having a near death experience and waking up thinking I was in the matrix and that nothing was real.
in 2000, full blown psychosis trip, voices hallucintions delusions, the lot, lasted about a month, i was 18
I was 22. Just a week before my exams I woke up and the world looked different-secret messages everywhere, conspiracies, some hallucinations and massive terror.
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I was hospitalized and got medicated first time in 2013 so was 30 years old. But after learning more about the sickness and looking back I had milder symptoms much earlier.
First bout of paranoia, 11 or 12. I thought, for about a year, that my parents were trying to kill me. I starved myself out of fear of poisoned food and cried to myself daily.
Oddly enough, no one noticed.
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Age 27 first hallucination. Delusions since childhood
32 years old.
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I was twenty 
I begin to feel people harassing wearing black sunglasses everywhere
Untill voices begin
Probably 20 or 21.
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I was probably in middle school, maybe younger. 12 years old? I was trying to take a nap and I heard my dads voice in my head calling my name. I was kind of confused but didn’t say anything to anyone and it didn’t happen again for some time. I wondered about that over the years but looking back I know that it was the start of sz.
I had magical thinking in childhood. For example, I thought I could control the traffic lights with my mind, psychically. Was that a delusion, me being a kid, or the “schizophrenia”? Some stuff is just natural or normal for a kid. I never told anyone besides my parents. I think when you’re ignorant about a lot of things, your mind just comes up with conclusions. I think traffic lights and intersections are interesting now. I mean it takes some intelligence to figure out how they work. They were designed by engineers.
They got sensors in ground to help control traffic, cameras, and buttons for walking. The emergency people got stuff to change the light when they are in a hurry. Very fascinating stuff. Then you got people who think it’s all statistics and probability or Newtonian mechanics. You know, how accidents happen in intersections or how traffic works–why and how it happens. I think it’s all math. Some people just pray, think it’s luck, or something. I believe it’s science.
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I have no real idea. I thought strange things in junior high and highschool. Before the big break I heard two voices talking like they were watching me with a camera. That was at age 22. However the real break with reality began a year later when my thoughts which I still controlled at the time sounded like other people. Later about exactly 26 years ago I started losing control of my mind and voices appeared in the a/c vent, the walls, the hallway, in the distance outside, and eventually my head.
I was about 18 when I lost my schizophrenia virginity.
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I was 26 years old when I had my first psychotic crisis. Now I am 70 years old. Thinking about it, I had a gradual build up of symptoms as I was growing up. But it hit hard at 26.
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