Schizophrenia with no family history?

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I used alcohol as form of self-medication for 20 years, I have not had any alcohol at all since june.

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Perhaps the answer was we are one but nobody could see it

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Wow. But on the lighterside, after y2k, I bet that pesky grocery shopping chore was cut to less than half.

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what we loved and disliked in the other was us.

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Nah. She was pretty bad off. It took several years before we were allowed to even touch that food and a lot of it had started to expire.

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Oh coomme oonn!

you never snuck out even a single package of cookies?

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well y2k’s generally revolved their stuff to what was still good but to judge them eh you weren’t there. it is probably the gap designed to seperate.

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I believed the end of the world was going to happen on new years day 2000. I was very delusional at the time, I also believed that I was a prophet of God.

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I have a first cousin on my dad’s side who is schizophrenic. And mental illness abounds on my mom’s side of the family. I had a drug-induced psychosis. I really should have known better.

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I don’t think there were any cookies? I really don’t know. I was old enough by then that I was barely ever home. I had moved out before she ever started going through it. When I visited for the first time years later after college there were still several tubs full of dry and canned foods that hadn’t been touched. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were still down there. Probably relevant to note she’s also got a legit bad hoarding problem.

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Oh.I thought this was when you were a teen or younger.

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wow their were always cookies. to blame the other, blame yourself

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In Nazi Germany, all the diagnosed schizophrenics were sadly killed, around 230k-270k of them, and the rate of schizophrenia in Germany didn’t go down post-WWII, it actually went up. Doesn’t make a strong case for blaming genes.

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right @naturallycured i wonder if they saw who see.

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I was 14 in 2000, but rarely home more than just to sleep at night. And by 16 I had moved out altogether.

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@naturallycured this is so interesting to learn!

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Not all, only the low functioning ones (100k), the others were sterilized.

Statistical studies prove that genetics is the strongest known risk factor.

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no family history of mental illness…there was talk of a great aunt that they kept in the attic, but nothing was said about her having schizophrenia.

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