This definitely applies to myself. I developed sz around age 24-25, so I was a late bloomer. My insight is pretty good, and I know what a decent quality of life consists of. Anyone else with a late onset with the illness?
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I was about 39 when I was diagnosed.
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I was diagnosed around the age of 38 years old.
I was lucky in that I had already established work, friends and started a family.
Must be harder when you are just a youth, and have to tackle this affliction while just starting out your life.
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I started having symptoms at 23, sza at 27 or so, rediagnosed as sz at 30.
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I was 27 when diagnosed.
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Interesting, men usually have an earlier age of onset than women, yet everyone here was diagnosed at age 25+
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Average age of onset for women is late 20’s-early 30’s, and I was diagnosed at 25 but suspected at 18 (I had a few psychotic breaks that finally got controlled with meds and was diagnosed psychotic depression, as soon as I went off my meds I got the sz diagnosis).
So I guess I’m early/average.
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I was 38 when I got sick.
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I would not consider this late onset. That’s a pretty average age of onset.
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Yea, you’re right. I guess I’m comparing myself to sz youtubers, who seem to be acquiring the illness at a younger age
I got diagnosed at 22 with SZ but I’m pretty sure I had schizotypal or a mild form of SZ as a teenager.
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i was 26 when I got sz,…I do not consider that myself to be late onset although they do say that men develop it typicalllly at age 18 to 25
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Having SZ at 24 or 25 years old is not considered late onset @anon49063606.
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my aunt who developed schizophrenia late in life was in her forties i think late forties i’m pretty sure. when she first got sick she would call my dad saying people were out to kill her and her daughter was in a cult and took her away.
I was born this way.
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Nineteen or so, had mild symptoms around 2 two years before that.
May have had my first psychotic break in the second grade around 8, then went into remission for a decade.
I was 27 when I developed it
In 2011 I was 45 years old when diagnosed with acute depression with psychotic features. I never took the medication prescribed and in 2014 at the age of 48 my diagnosis was changed to schizophrenia. If only I had taken the medication in the first instance.
I started to have symptoms at age 14 - diagnosed age 18.
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The average age of onset for women is 25. There is a noticeable increase for women after age 30. I was 35.