What caused your psychotic episode?

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I gather I have PTSD from an earlier traumatic incident.

But I’m from the generation where you’re just supposed to suck it up and deal with it on your own.

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My major life event was the loss of the wife - and not seeing my daughter for 14 years.

That and copious amounts of booze and LSD.

Never had a stable teenage years either. I was a bloody nightmare to live with - and was forever getting nicked for stupid stuff and doing time in the nick.

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My last breakdown was caused by a colleague with - i suspect - a borderline PD. She harassed and stressed me to the point of going to pieces. I shattered.

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Covid 68? There was a pandemic while my Mom was pregnant with me.

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Is that another type of coronavirus?

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Lack of sleep and being cyber stalked for a month or so. When i woke up after staying up for 4 days straight, i had minor voices and my thoughts were erratic.

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stress from college and heavy marihuana use. episode was highly synchronistic.

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Lots of stress.

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My anorexia and coming off a powerful antihistamine I’ve been taking for years. They’re just theories, though.

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I’m also with you there
I hate this idea that it might never have got me
I was born autisticly strange and had addictive impulse control problems
Also my 2 sisters Also took drugs and both became schizophrenic
So maybe with the other variables I probably would have anyway

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Mine was caused by the extreme stress of first year of nursing school, an abusive husband, a toddler, a part time job, and pot smoking all at the same time.

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I think it has almost always been when I got off my med’s.

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Lack of sleep and extreme stress (unessasary stress)

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Too many hallucinogenic drugs (Marijuana,LSD,) coupled with too much stress. Could have been genetics too. I haven’t touched that stuff in 14-15 years now. It was a terrible experience to go through.

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Too much stress

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Good old fashioned stress.

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Stress. I was slowly falling apart as the symptoms crept up on me.

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Weed and lost love/college soul mate

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There was a pandemic in 1968-1969 called the Hong Kong Flu that killed a few million Worldwide but was less lethal in the US although it still killed between 150,000-200,000. My Dad had it during Christmas, 1968. I was born two months premature late in April. I don’t know if it was a coronavirus.

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Drinking liqour make me crazy.

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