I think it just presented itself differently when I was very young. I never fitted in as a kid. There was always something amiss. It’s always been with me. This feeling of being half a person who was trying to be a whole one.
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Yup same. Although the psychotic symptoms didn’t completely manifest them until later. I was never my true whole self. And my teenage years there was clearly something up.
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We all face hardships and trauma in our sensitive teenage years, but normies brush it off more. We get paranoid and go into worlds of delusion and fantasy and feel victimized. Take it more personally. Sensitivity is a key to becoming sz IMO.
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I think there’s always been something a little off with me too. I think schizophrenia really took off when I moved out of home though.
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I have thought I was always schizophrenic for a while but now I wonder if I was merely the lesser twin.
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I had it young…I think I was a vet in sz by teenage years…gave me the delusion I could handle it all on my own and keep it a secret…I did well until last year…and now I feel broken…
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My earliest memory of symptoms was aged 6, but my dad said he noticed a change in my behaviour age 3 when I got back from the hospital.
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Yeah, I was always sz with brief lucid times that were soon bounced off.
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I had command hallucinations when I was 13 so… It can start fairly early.
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My parents always knew I was a different one. I had to go to all these special social skills classes because I didn’t like other kids. I thought they were immature and had weird preoccupations.
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