I was 20, I was told I was “right on time” by a clueless cheerful woman who apparently didn’t understand what a painful thing it is to be told you have an incurable chronic brain disease.
23, but I had symptoms since 19 and never got medication till 28… it was because mainly embarrassment of needing help!
And avoiding the terms that I might have sz
21, started with paranoia then visual hallucinations.
30 years old. Although I was prodromal a couple of years before that.
I was 16 but soon to be 17. I was hospitalized almost six months on the adolescent ward. It was really bad at first then it became my new normal.
When I got out I got a job, then after a few weeks got another job. My brother came home from college and that helped. We would watch THE DUKES OF HAZARD every afternoon.
17 dxd as drug induced psychosis
23 dxd Paranoid schizophrenia
28 dxd Generalised anxiety disorder
31 dxd with Autism
I don’t remember fully but I think it started around 19, and then my life shattered to pieces and still it is outside but inside I feel better and capable of handling any belittling or abuse. I am ready for the battle.
I was first diagnosed with MDD with psychosis too when I was 20. The ER diagnosed me with psychotic disorder NOS at one point too during that time but it wasn’t taken seriously. I was diagnosed with sza when my psychosis returned at age 26
I have been mentally ill since I was 20 years old in 1996.
I was diagnosed with sz when I was 24 or 25.
2003 19 or 20 years
I was diagnosed with Bipolar at 25 and diagnosed schizoaffective 3 years after that.
I didn’t know what schizoaffective was, so till 31 I thought at worst I was Bipolar. This is because in those 6 years everything that was false was true to me, and I never conveyed to anyone I was getting voices. They had diagnosed me Bipolar because I was out for 3 nights, not because I had controlling voices.
I had my first break of delusions/depression when I was 17 and migrated to the US. It lasted for 6 months, and miraculously went away. Then nothing happened for two years, until I started getting delusions again. They continued until I got diagnosed with Bipolar at the age of 25 when I got voices which took me out for 3 nights. When I came back, I was taken to the hospital and diagnosed as Bipolar.
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I used to get this with every psychosis. I become psychotic and I think everything I thought before was a delusion and now I’m suddenly seeing what’s real and true for the first time. Delusion becomes reality and the reality of before I believe was delusion all along. Everything flips over.
I had my first episode of major depression and psychosis when I was 34. I had this delusion that the longer I stayed on earth, the longer I was going to have to stay in Hell. So, I decided to kill myself. I dove headfirst out of a 3rd story window. I hit the ground and realized I was still conscious. I walked to the front of the building, up 2 flights of stairs and when I reached my apartment door, I realized that I had jumped without my keys and was locked out of my apartment. Someone called the paramedics and I was rushed to the hospital, where doctors performed a radical pancreaticoduodenectomy (Whipple procedure). So, for the last 34 years, I’ve lived with half a pancreas, no duodenum or gallbladder, and only some of my stomach and small intestines. My advice is, don’t try to kill yourself. There’s a good chance you’ll just wind up maimed and incapacitated, but still alive.
20 years old
I’m now 59 soon to become 60
27, it came pretty abrupt on me, although I had some bad mental habits that started from about 18/19 that kicked in now and again.
I remember thinking that mental illness would never happen to me. But I got the wrong picture from the media. I didn’t understand psychosis or sz before I got it myself. It can happen to anyone, it’s just a matter of circumstances, like with most other diseases.
I got sick after a trip of mushrooms when i was 17. I lived in hellish anxiety for 3 years without telling anyone about my problems. Then i got hospitalised and received my first diagnosis, borderline, but they changed it shortly after for a schizoaffective diagnose
14: social anxiety
15-18: gradually worsening depression.
18.5: schizophrenia dx
First hospitalization for psychosis when I was 24.
They said I had bipolar or sz.
Turned out it was sz.
Id been symptomatic during my mid-20s. Was quite a time! Awful! That period of worsening concluded with a serious incident, and a few months in hospital. I was diagnosed with Schizophrenia (F20.0) in that time. I also went private for a second-opinion diagnosis, and they concurred.