Jeeze. I dont like to think about the past. It often depresses me to see how much has changed. Thats pretty wild an 800 on the SAT section. I was dumb and didnt study at all
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After high school I had a string of unskilled low- paying jobs. Smoked pot and drank. Went places and partied in my cars. Had a few friends. Moved out of my parents apartment when I was 18 to share an apartment with my sister. I took too much acid and had a few bad trips when I was 19 which probably triggered my schizophrenia.
After the acid I moved back in with my parents and worked some more and spent my days jogging in the hills or hanging out in malls or taking the bus to places that I didn’t know. I stopped seeing my friends and did stuff by myself. Right before I went in my first psyche ward I was mostly staying home and watching TV. Started seeing a therapist and after a few months or so I started my life long career as a professional schizophrenic.
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I think I always had schizophrenia or whatever it is. When I was a kid I had a lot of trouble at school, behavior problems and stuff, around grade 8 a school councilor said I was disorganized but I went to a psychologist and he didn’t diagnose schizophrenia, nothing was mentioned about that at all. Then in grade 10 I had first psychosis and social withdrawal, but that actually improved me at school. Then in university I had big psychotic episode.
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I lived in a wonderful place where I lived in a bountiful land with plenty of welcome pleasures. No actually I was having difficulty socializing and basically was struggling to try to make it.
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I was more talkative, passionate and had friends
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Sigh. I was mentally ill since I was 12 with no diagnosis. I didn’t hear voices until I was 37. I didn’t get a diagnosis until I was 43. I had a normal life as I do now.
I guess you could say my life before Sz was intrusive-thought and voice free. I still hear a voice with medication.
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well my piano teacher when i was five tol me i was 30.
i don’t know what happened to me.
no. good times they were. they are cherished.
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I just remember being very care free. Like being able to make a joke in public without feeling like the world views me as the anti-Christ.
I was diagnosed in my late 20’s too, about at the age of 28.
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I’ve always had issues.
No sudden onset of symptoms.
They’ve been creeping on me since I can remember.
I think it’s easier that way.
There’s nothing to compare life to.
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I was always sz - from the womb on. I was so unplanned they hadn’t thought of a name for me when I was born.
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It was pretty chaotic before sz. Then had this traumatic event. The next morning i was psychotic. I was 16. Been sz ever since. Im now 28.
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Before I got diagnosed I was unemployed and crazy was training in the gym for two years 7 days a week before I went to hospital
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Before sza, my life sucked because I was prodromal with a bad case of bulimia and I was living with an abusive husband and I had no friends. Plus we were living in poverty with roaches.
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Wow that’s late to be diagnosed @everhopeful
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Before my sza diagnosis, as a child I was neglected and abused. To the extreme. As a young adult I was abused by my first husband.
Gods news is now I’m remarried and no longer abused.
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I was carefree and happy-go-lucky. I thought life was great. I was bullied all through school but most of the time I didn’t think about it so I was happy almost all the time. Things went downhill in 2005 when I was 15 and started drinking and smoking weed and I started getting weird and strange thoughts and isolating.
I did have delusions as a kid and teen but they made me happy because when I was a kid I thought I was going to heaven for being good and when I was a teen I thought I was going to live to be eighty then go to heaven.
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Kinda sad. I was at University with only a few friends; no social life. Just playing video games when I got back from Uni. I was isolated, lonely, depressed…Had a really bad sleep schedule too. I wish I could turn back the clock and change everything. I had crippling body dysmorphia as well.
Too late to go back, but I’m only 26 so I still have time to fix my life whilst I’m young.
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I was high achieving in school and college and went to medical school
Had the time of my life at university. I was popular, many friends, a lot of social events and parties
Used to be slim and dressed very well, but since meds have gained weight
I was an Alpha male, but without the muscular figure - people respected me
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I was working a government job with good prospects. I was trying to find a female partner. I was enjoying life and could eat what I wanted without gaining weight. I played my computer a lot. I still hung out with school and uni friends, only drank once a week, played sport (indoor cricket), and generally was happy.
Symptoms started at 27 and I was diagnosed at 30.
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Before becoming sick, I had lots of friends, I exercised daily, I was at a healthy weight. I didnt have any worries in the world. I was optimistic. Life was good.
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