Been thinking .. my prodromal started when i was 12-13. I became severely depressed and my whole personality changed and i stopped socializing with friends in person as much. I mean i was still a teenager and tried but i found it increasingly difficult.
If thats true mine was 8 years long.
When did yours start? And how long did it last?
Really have no idea
I was punished by school parents and police
No idea if I was acting out because of mental health or not
I remember as a teen my religious and political obsessions started. I became extremely into philosophy and the idea of seeing “beuond” reality with drugs because i had to figure out the answers
Tooting my own horn for getting my HS diploma during prodromal and my bachelors after developing psychosis
And now im about to start on my masters.
I’m not sure. As a teen I was hyper-religious. But I started walking to church on Sundays by myself at 8 years old. I was reading the Bible at night at 5 years old (I started reading at 3). So I’ve always leaned towards the religious side of things which makes it hard to know if it’s just me or if it is an illness.
I’m not convinced I have sza, but I absolutely need meds in order to function and not be very strange.
I can almost pinpoint the timeframe mine started – during the second semester of my freshman year of college. So roughly 2011, until 2016 when I had my first psychotic break
My problem started at 8 yrs.
I had headaches daily. They took me to research all kind of tests, but in the end psychologist… They run some paper test,it seemed they pointed to my father’s abuse..
They told him to be a bit easy on me,he was for a month,but later got back to abuse..
I become from best grade child in classroom,to have adhd symptoms..
All the time desoriented behavior,looking to walls and don’t hear what teacher said.
If my mother didn’t interfered and protected me, I would drop from school
I got diagnosed at age 19. Later, in my twenties, my mom told me she thought something was wrong with me when I was 17 but she didn’t know what it was. So I would guess my prodromal phase was about two years.
Probably 5 years, from 17-22. I had severe depression then but don’t really get that now.
Im not sure for me ay. There was so much hectic stuff happening for years before I finally snapped and ended up in the adult high intensity psych ward as a teenager for like 5 or 6 months straight without leaving.
My life was filled with drugs, crime, violence and spending lots of time with middle aged insane psychopaths when I was a youth. It would have been impossible to not become schizophrenic in my opinion. Makes me sad dwelling on that stuff.
Im happy that you managed to finish school and are still studying today despite the mental health issues. Very cool! 
started when i was 14. didn’t know what was happening to me until i got diagnosed at 19. kids in school often bullied me for being schizophrenic, though i was in denial i was.
When I was 18 I got psychosis/derealization for a year from weed. Things sorta unraveled but got better for a bit until I had a major episode at 23.
mine started five or six years before I was 35. so like the last year in college on.
I think my prodrome started at age 15 (if not earlier), because that’s when the bulimia (and associated depression), started.
Prodromal…. early 20s perhaps. My general performance in most important things began to sink. In my job, in my sports, in my family life… everything started to change, and not at a worse time, when my children were still very young. When I was on the brink of promotion, on the brink of some bigger fights, on the brink of acceptance by my in-laws.
I am considered a deeply religious person. In those prodromal days, I became less religious. When things started to stabilise, a little further down the line, my piety returned. Its now an indicator for me; when I become less focused on my faith, which is a huge part of my life, its a sign that Im becoming unwell. Easy to pick up on too. “Did you go to Liturgy today? Have you prayed the Hours? Have you read the Church Fathers?” - if the answer is no, something is a foot.
5 years, i seemed to be able to perceive things sharper and louder and more vividly more and more each year until after like 5 years of that it burst like a balloon with too much air blown into it and i went insane over what i later realized were just tactile hallucinations. Then the voices started and the delusions and so on
It’s hard to tell. I was always markedly different from other children. Things really ramped up when I started public school at 13. I was totally unsuited for it, and the bullying started almost immediately. Over a period of 3.5 years I went from being socially anxious to increasingly depressed.My academic performance had been slowly declining since about the age of 10. There was no help back then for executive functioning deficits. Indeed I’ve never had help for them. The decline went into hyper-speed on starting the lower 6th at 16.75 years old. So I guess that I’d say the prodrome started then, if forced to give an answer.
Although there have been more than a few threads like this, not much gets said about cognition during that prodromal phase. Perhaps I’m an outlier in saying that EF and social functioning have been the most impairing for me. Or perhaps that dovetails well with sz/sz-a being secondary rather than primary. The autism being primary.
My executive dysfunction is pretty severe too. I just sit around all day. I dont have friends.
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