What triggers your guys schizophrenia symptoms? Mine are anxiety, stress and lack of sleep. How about you? What are some things you do that make your symptoms worse?
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Lack of sleep, stress, too much happening at the same time.
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mine act up when there is something I should be upset about, but I suppress the emotion. I’m getting better about recognizing when it’s happening and dealing with the source of the problem.
cops, staying outside for too long, too many people around me. those are quite notable triggers for me. 
lack of sleep doesn’t really influence my illness, but sleep helps a lot. if I’m stressed and I can’t nap, then things can snowball. 
Lack of sleep and skimping on my meds to avoid side effects.
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Social anxiety. My parents put strange ideas in my head when I was very young through adulthood, and they demonized music and television when I was a kid because they were Jehovah’s witnesses so I didn’t have anything to relate to other kids. And emotional triggers like movies, tv, and music usually make me highly paranoid and cause me anxiety. I even made up a whole storyline and backstory about why I have psychosis.
Stress, negative people, depressing thoughts. Crowded places, sometimes music. Sometimes the news. I have to live with my dad and sister who are in love with negativity. I have to do a lot of awkward avoiding.
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I get triggered by lack of sleep, stress, people yelling at me and being around too many people.
Stress. Especially over things I have no control.
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Stress in general, being around a lot of different people,Cops, going to the ER (a new trigger)
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Same! The lack of sleep is a huge factor for me.
same here. music is a very notable trigger for me. I can’t go shopping for food, or anything, without carrying headphones to flush out the lyrical music in the store.
I seriously don’t know how employees can survive with that music, throughout an entire day. but I guess they like it or don’t get messages from it.
Stress, getting caught up in worry, lack of sleep, like others. Mean people, bad news (personal or global), and lack of devotion/fellowship to/with God.
For me, it’s not the lyrics that upset me most of the time. It’s just the sounds get altered to sound “beastly”.
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Arguments with loved ones. Stress. Violent movies. Thinking of my voices or other symptoms too much awakens the voice in my head. Feeling too much emotions at same time.
I find it triggering when people talk about God / when I’m exhausted / stress / being around a lot of people in a confined space. Things like that…