Were you "normal" before sz/sza or were you always different?

I was always a bit off.
Even as a kid.

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I was a loner (quite asocial) , shy , intellectually older than my years but independence wise and socially young for my age, physically award and socially awkward

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Nah, I was ****ed up from the go! I was pretty antisocial, people called me psycho coz I was such a snap case. 7th grade I got my first ā€œofficialā€ label - SMED - Socially Maladjusted and Emotionally Disturbed. Yay me.

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I have my own unique personality and I was a little different but I don’t want to be the same as everyone else. I did get labelled with having a ā€œbehavioural problemā€ in primary school when I was a kid though. But before schizophrenia I always had a job, friends, gf, was on track and field team, so I guess I was ā€œnormalā€ for the most part.

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I’ve always been weird and had issues. But I was abused and neglected so it could have been that and not sza

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I suppose I was normal up until I was fifteen. Then I started getting these intense anxiety attacks that were so exhausting. I could see the seeds of my future mental illness when I was much younger, though

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I’ve always been f’ed!

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I was always weird because of anxiety.

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i was fu *ked too. ha ha ha ha

i suffered so much back then.
i hated being a child.

the best ive ever been is with my x in sa and now im pretty good too.
noone has ever loved me so much or treated me so well.perfect family perfect home.
my former step mum gives me quality love too and i adore her too.

i was actually treated very badly when i was younger.
i was worthless, ugly , unwanted , stupid, whore they all thought.
i was bullied, raped, abused, almost murdered etc.

things got better. :slight_smile: yeay!

i was seen as a wierdo but also as ugly, worthless, stupid, easy, wh ore (i have never taken money for anyones penis in my body).

it sucked back then.
was overwhelming, unbearable, apathy, beyond depression, why does no one love me, suicidal thoughts at child hood etc

i guess i was always different.

because i was treated so badly when i was younger i am very upset now when my sister and nephew think they are superior to me.
they treat me as if i am less than them and supress me and try dominating me with hate because they dont love me.
she has had such a easy life.
she is not my superior.
i do not want them in my life.
dont want to be with stuck up people like that.
makes me uncomfortable around them.
i give love and get nastiness returned.

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I was normal. I was a wife, a mother, a sister, a daughter and an aunt right up until the age of 48. Now I am none of the above and am only left with a diagnosis of Schizophrenia.

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I think I’ve always been different… I never had many friends and even if I did have a friend or two it wasn’t a group it was just one or two from different groups or clicks that felt sorry for me and talked to me and hung out with me… I had two friends who attacked me sexually at one point (they were both girls) and then I had another friend who used me as a safe house… A place she could relax until I didn’t take her to her grandma’s house instead I offered to spend the night with me… After that I got ghosted by her and only saw her about two months ago and we said hi and went our separate ways… I remember senior year in highschool I had no friends at all… And even isolated myself from them… I look at old pics of the school photo album of my senior year and I’m always at the edge of the group… I felt so alone back then… I even hallucinated that I was being bullied… I asked kids from my class about it later on and they said no that never happened

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Different. And then withdrawn.

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Especially talented normal on most ways and As I Grew Older I changed in many ways differences only started slowly to come by the time I reached High School I was more than just one I didn’t have voices I didn’t have fear tell my heart was broken too I thought I knew love but did I know there’s too much to nurture and care for for a young one to know the difference became the biggest stress in my life that I ended up depressed and try to take my life but God wouldn’t have it and neither would man so I struggled along the best I can and so I met a doctor okay me too many pills and damn near killed me from the ignorance that he failed I learned a hard reason for life Bloody Knox now I say to you forget your simple building blocks

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In hindsight I was different. I struggled with paranoia for most of my teen/adult life. I got dxed at 29 so I was always a little different. I’d justify that by saying I was shy etc…but really it was paranoia.

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I was just an ok kid till I hit about 8 yrs old. outwardly. Everything important I kept inside.

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I was always called ā€œweird, odd, strangeā€, by family and friends.

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I was always the weird kid and black sheep of the family. I was diagnosed ADHD inn the late 80’s, which, as a young girl, was already incredibly rare. But now my psychiatrist thinks it might be that I’m just a misdiagnosed autistic. 🤷 But I don’t have the energy of money to go through that testing, so I guess we’ll never know.

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same for me… growing up was hard i think… school was a hard time for me.

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I think you could trace my symptoms to early childhood.

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I was pretty normal, up until age 12. At age 12, I started to have depression and hypomania. I was weird, so I was picked on. I also started seeing things, at age 12.

I wasn’t diagnosed with schizoaffective bipolar type until I was 23.

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