My 8 year old brother might have it 
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I’m sorry. That must be hard knowing what could lie ahead for him.
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Some delusions I’ve had are that my cat and my dog were conspiring to kill my other cat. And that there are demons attached to my genes and dna
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It destroys me on the inside
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tbh going back on my earlier answer i had an on again off again delusion about aliens monitoring me from like age 6 on…they would get pretty intense, i would think about them all the time and get so petrified at night cause i thought they were coming for me
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I used to believe my dog had cameras in her eyes and that I needed to scoop them out with a spoon. That’s what my voices would tell me to do.
I’m extremely glad I never listened.
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I was 23 years old when I first had positive symptoms. But, I didn’t start getting treatment for them until I was 31 years old. That didn’t take care of the problems though. I suffered for another 33 years with severe positive symptoms before finally hitting upon the right regimen of medications to take away all of my those symptoms.
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I was diagnosed in 1980 at age 19. I’m 57 now. Things have gotten measurably, much better. My symptoms are much less intense and some troublesome delusions have gone. In 1981 I spent 8 months locked up in the hospital. I got out and 9 months later I got a job that I ended up staying at for 4 years. And Ive been working almost steadily since.
I had a nasty relapse in 1988 when I was 28 which cleared up after a year but I even held jobs during that relapse.
Just two and a half years ago I had a two day hospitalization because I felt suicidal and stressed. My moms death and a host of other bad life events sparked the hospitalization. Bu I am recovered from that relapse and I live mostly independently and at age 57 I have been at my janitor job for 5 years. But I had stayed out of the hospital for 25 years.
And now I feel good for most of the time and I find “Life” is darn interesting. And I find people are, friendly, fascinating creatures.
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I was 17 when I had my first episode. It was one of the worst that I have had.
I heard things occasionally starting in middle school. My break happened when I was 21. Symptoms have varied over the years due to stressful times in my life. Symptoms are now the best they’ve been in awhile. I’m 40 now.
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I’ve had music in my head for as long as I can remember. When I was old enough to walk, I would run across a room and butt my forehead against a wall to make it stop. I could only fall asleep by banging my head against my hands in my crib until I was exhausted. Vraylar is no more effective at snuffing the music hallucination than Orap ever was. I can be in the direst danger, in the trickiest positions, and the music will proceed indifferently. The music is stoppable only by my death, and that’s how I will know – or not.
Music now: “Turn the Page,” sax and electric piano… old Bob Seger song.
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16-17. Weed induced with a genetic disposition. Only diagnosed this year at 27. Just realising most of my life has been a series of ups and downs with psychosis and dissociative properties triggering it.
I was 5 when I heard the first voice.
My symptoms got worse when I was 9, and then again at 12.
I was convinced everyone was gossiping about me even when they weren’t, and I was sure the house was haunted by evil spirits.
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I was having hallucinations when I was 4 years old. I was convinced I could levitate through an orange light that would surround me and give me power. At school I always knew I was different. But it wasn’t until I was about 15 when I started having mood swings, anger problems and self harm that it really started to manifest in a serious way. I don’t self harm any more, very rarely anyway, but the episodes just keep coming, again and again. I’m in my mid 30’s now, I hope with all my heart that I get some peace as I get older.
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I was 14 after my mom died
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Haha I love you
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Lol, thanks! 15151515
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17 and worse with each relapse
I was 14. I think until I started Rexulti, just under 2 years ago, the hallucinations were near constant. Up until then, it didn’t change.
I don’t think my age by itself had much to do with anything, unless it had something to do with the Rexulti actually working. I tried nearly everything else.
I was four years old when I had a memorable hallucination. But I was 12-13, when puberty hit, when the torment began. It was at that age that I slipped into a new reality.
As far as it getting “better” with age, I would say yes. But you have to pay attention and work on being functional. For me, the older I’ve gotten (I’m 51 now) the more honest and aware I’ve become and the less power the positive symptoms are. The negative symptoms are less in severity but it is frustrating when I realize that they never go away. I think it’s work right up to the end.
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