Did your symptoms change over time? Mine did. Like my hallucinations changed a LOT as I got older. I think it’s interesting and I wonder why that is.
my main period of psychotic symptoms occured when i was 16-17 and i was diagnosed when 17, but my first hallucinations happened around age 12-13 and i had delusions go back to my childhood. personally, the old ones stayed but were accompanied by new ones. i always had an on again off again delusion about aliens from like, age 7 up, and that was really prevalent around age 16-17, but so were new delusions about everyone plotting against me.
I had the same delusion from 5-13 that just kept getting more and more complex involving monsters and then I got into spirituality and then they all became related to that from 14 and up.
Did you have hallucinations as a kid too? Or just the delusions.
It’s sort of interest bc I’ve seen other people on here who like got psychosis at the normal time but thinking back remembered having delusions even as a kid despite not being fully psychotic.
I was hearing a voice as a teenager, but I never sought help for it.
I still have him as a voice, I call him وسواس.
He like to command me and threaten me to do things. Especially religious-related things.
I have had schizotypal personality disorder since a child, but I didn’t have a psychotic episode.
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When I was in bed and close my eyes Aged about nine and saw an alien behind my eyes I thought it was somebody trying to communicate it never really said anything else To me but I think I wasn’t sure if it was a very beautiful human or an alien I thought I should draw it
That’s as far as it got
It was a typical bigeyes heart Shaped face thing
From age about 7 to about 13 when other things became more important in my life like pop music , I would fairly frequently hear a voice it just said my name I got to the point I just want to know what the hell It wanted
I thought that was probably a ghost
I had Times when I would divine sets of numbers like 747 in the weeks leading up to a serious plane crash.I thought I was to blame
happened two or three times and I considered suicide - my sisters were horrified …
When I was 15 I used illegal drugs for awhile.
Within a Year I was full on psychotic
Before that I was a massive emo I guess
I don’t know that classes as any kind of childhood problems don’t think it does I think it is only if it is completely full blown that is is childhood psychosis
These things were things I thought about to myself that signifies that might have been completely normal
I would say yes. My delusions changed content from childhood to adulthood. I didn’t have audio hallucinations until 21. It was odd and interesting to notice, actually.
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I had my first symptoms at 8 but didn’t become unwell until 14. But only then was it depression and anxiety with political obsessions my uncle committed suicide a year later and everything hit the fan. I ended up being sexually exploited by someone I thought was my partner (he was an adult) I realise now the way he manipulated me with threats were the formation of my delusions only I made them terrifying ten fold it was mostly to cope with what was happening. I gave myself power through my delusions when i had no power in reality. My voices exacerbated how I felt about myself. My brain broke at 16 when I became completely lost the psychosis took over and because I wasn’t believed by professionals about my abuse I turned inwards and made my world bigger.
I supressed my abuse until this year and now its surfaced im trying not to lose myself in psychosis again i am psychotic i have my world and everyone else has theirs. My voices are controlled by medication they narrate most days only becoming aggressive when I am stressed or angry. I have been able to doubt my head more and more over the years so Its very different to when I was 15-21
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