POLL: How long before you started treatment?

DX'd - Sz/SzA
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I’m curious about something. How much time has passed between the onset of your schizophrenia (ie the first psychotic break) and the moment you started taking antipsychotics?
The vote is public.

  • Less than a month
  • Less than three month
  • Less than six months
  • Less than a year
  • Less than two years
  • More than two years

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In my case it was less than 3 months, actually 7 weeks to be exact. I consider myself lucky. My delusions didn’t have time to take root so I was able to regain my insight rather quickly.

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I answered less than a month, but I made a mistake.
When I was offered treatment, I took it right away, but I had to live with my SZ for 21 years before anyone offered me treatment for it.

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10 months before taking ap’s. I was so psychotic that i was afraid to talk to someone about it, about my voices

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You can change your vote, Berru… But if my math if correct, it means you were ill even as a child?? :cry:

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I had it for at least 10 years before seeking treatment. I consider my first auditory hallucinations at 14 to be my first break, but I had been experiencing delusions since age 11 or so.

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Yes, I was most likely born like this

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Once I was diagnosed I was on meds immediately. But my mental health problems started five years before that and went untreated for that long. I didn’t know what was wrong with me, just that I heard a voice in my head and had severe panic attacks for years and mood swings and lived in fantasy world.

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I was already on aps before my first psychotic episode…

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I had a great hospital to go to, and a family to be able to afford everything. I was lucky.

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are we counting the prodrome of the illness. not counting the prodrome about a week. counting the prodrome two or more years.

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i had maybe a year of symptoms before i got help. it made me drop out of school and when i got a job i lost my job after symptoms get worse.

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I’ll firstly state that I (IMO) am a borderline case re psychosis. Though I guess they must have a reason for having me on an antipsychotic.
From the first overt signs of serious mental illness to getting on an antipsychotic was about 20 months.

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When are u going to post some great news again man

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When I come across some.

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First major episode was 16. (I had symptoms even before that but 16 was the big breaking point) Didn’t start meds until 20.