What age did you first visit the psych ward?

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For me it was at a young and tender age of 17.

I was a minor.

My mom made me drop out of high school took away my Track career. I literally stayed with my grandmother from 1998-2002 watching tv playing playstation and getting online chatting with people.
I wish I could have been well and started my career at 18.

This disease sucks ass I just have regrets and feel so horrible I have to the tools to succeed but I’m 40 years old. what a waste of life to a disease.

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I was also 17… I ended up in the hospital in Youth Detention and then sent to the community hospital when they realised I had psychosis

It was pretty messy

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I was the tender age of 18

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I was 15 at my first hospitalization. After that I had back to back hospital stays until I was 18

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Born Jan 1957. First visit May 1975. Was a week into my last term at Felsted public school. The term A levels were due to be taken.

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I wasn’t even born yet. I’m from 1989.

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My first hospitalization was in 1991. I was 31.

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I was 24 as well.

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I was 18 when I went to hospital the first time.

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I went in when I was 19. My last I was 55.

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20 i was in university

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that’s not old.

can always re-invent yourself
I have many times

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25 I think

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I was prodromal at 32 but full blown psychotic at 35…late onset.

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just wanted to share, the first was 1999, so I was 30, but diagnosed 3 years earlier.
we could smoke in the ward on glass partition.
pretty bad though, guy hitting on me cuz I was buff and personanable. the whole unit went crazy.

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I was admitted to a psych ward when I was 18. They put me on Lithium Carbonate, but they didn’t tell me why… they never told me whatever my diagnosis was. So, as soon as I got out, I stopped the Lithium Carbonate.

Funny enough, I now take Lithium Carbonate at age 29. But I know why it was prescribed and such.

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can I make a gender parsay, women don’t always go for advances, but men still make them, rarely, women, horndog. sorry if I derailed the thread.

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The first sorta visit was a drug detox center due to a bad drug reaction in my mid 30’s. The first real visit was at age 45. It was another bad reaction to a drug. But it was also a relapse.

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did you go thru the mill, or just recreational? sorry if I’m including.