How old were you when you were diagnosed with schizophrenia?

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Hi! Wondering what age you were when you were diagnosed with schizophrenia?

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Hey @CakeFlourSugar Welcome to the forums. :smiley:

I was 26 when I was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. That was back in 2004.

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Hi @CakeFlourSugar . Welcome to the forum.

Is that your real name? If so, please choose another. I can change it for you. The reason being that this forum is public and anyone else can google your name, then end up seeing your posts.

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Could you change it for me, thank you!

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Yes, if you choose a new name. Just give me the name.

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CakeFlourSugar…

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Hi! How are you doing now?

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I was diagnosed at about 39 .

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Thanks for asking, I’m doing better than ever. I switched from Olanzapine to Lurasidone and it’s made a huge difference. I got a job about 6 months ago after being unemployed for almost 18 years.

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That is awesome!

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I was diagnosed SZA, bipolar type, very very late – I’m 48 now, and I wasn’t diagnosed until I was 47. It was a loooong time to be improperly medicated, if medicated at all, and I wonder what kind of long term damage that did to my head.

My illness was missed by so many people. First, it was depression in my teens. Whenever I tried to tell someone about delusions, they convinced me it was something else. Or that I was overreacting because I thought everyone hated me. Then I was diagnosed DID, and that was hard. All of my delusions were considered some unresolved trauma, and no matter how much I did the therapy appropriate for DID, it just didn’t work. So my therapist called me difficult, because I wasn’t “willing.” Then it was MDD, then Bipolar II, then Bipolar I with psychosis, then finally Schizoaffective, bipolar type.

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At 25 about of age.

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Wow, that’s even later than me.
I was diagnosed around 41 or 42 years of age. I can’t remember exactly when but around there.
I am 48 now.
Welcome to the forum @CakeFlourSugar !

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Makes you wonder what kind of life we could have had if they’d “caught” it sooner…

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Thank you! Do you think it was different being diagnosed at a later age, do you think the symptoms are different?

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I was diagnosed at age 21, but I was hospitalized at age 20 (1984).

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Welcome @CakeFlourSugar! I was diagnosed with sza about 9 months ago when I was 36.

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20 years old….
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I have read that ,supposedly, those who develop sz later in life have a better prognosis. Of course, I could have had it to some extent and not gone into full blown psychosis until later in life. I dunno. Otherwise, as far as I know, the symptoms aren’t that different. Mine were primarily delusions though, not much on the way of hallucinations, if any. I had a few tiny things that may have been considered hallucinations, like the feeling that I was poisoned(with physical symptoms) and a ringing in my ear, but I’m not sure if those were hallucinations or not. For the most part it was just delusions for me.