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Unknown. My life was good, I never took any drugs except alcohol once a week. My diet wasn’t too bad. Stress was OK.
I can remember feeling euphoria for no real reason a number of times the year before paranoia began.
I lead a pretty tame life. I was just ■■■■ out of luck I guess.
Me too, I think its from high dopamine. Antipsychotics block the dopamine.
stress and being heartbroken too long…
I was abused when I was little.
Funnily enough, it was triggered by playing a video game that I immediately got delusions about. Probably the stresses of high school contributed as well.
My schizophrenia appeared after a match of tennis. I played for 3 hours, it was very hot and i’ve taken some Ca Mg Zinc supplements. After about 3 hours of playing i had problems breathing and my heart was beating funny and i thought i was going away from this world. Dealing with these voices is not so hard now, i read some advice from a monk about what Jesus told us about loving the enemies. The monk said to pray to God to help us love everybody. If you want everybody to be ok, than your soul is at peace. I pray for this voices to be ok, maybe they are real, some spirits, or maybe they are not real. But anyway it helps me to love my enemies. Maybe that’s why God gave me this problem, to help me love the enemies. I have a pretty peaceful state right now, pretty happy even though i am not 100% healed. Even the voices are not so present all the time, they have become more peaceful too. May God help us all be ok and happy.
First I got cognitive symptoms at 10 y.o. then voices and delusions at 15 y.o. then suicide at 18 y.o. and 20 y.o. Diagnosed same day with sz after suicide attempt at 20 y.o.
I think Aspergers and ptsd and that I was bullied and abused and raped and that I as a child was mentally ill was part of it but taking drugs is what triggered what was already there.
I had apathy and depression as a child and I was a strange child and very sensitive.
I was mentally I’ll before taking drugs but taking drugs made it worse.
I think if I didn’t do drugs or alcohol or eat badly I would have been OK but the truth is that then that would not have been me.!!! Its all part of the puzzle that makes up me unfortunately
The Navy, overworked 5am to 9pm working hours 6 days a week normally (the worst the working hours got) getting our ship to be combat effective after being in the shipyard for a mid life overhaul, refitting and upgrading the ships systems. I was over stressed, depressed, having to spend every 3rd day on the ship overnight for watch and work. Very little sleep… so yeah a perfect receipe for getting psychosis 
this was over 4 years ago and I’ve come a long way to where I am now 
no longer in the navy for 3 years now and life has been getting better!
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I can’t talk about it. It makes me too upset and I get flashbacks. So I’m sitting it out on this one.
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Extreme stress buildup from always having a chaotic family life and years of hectic entry-level work for which I never felt appreciated. My eating disorder at the time didn’t help matters; I actually think it screwed up my brain chemicals almost as badly as the other stressors.
Think it was a combination of things really:
Smoking a good amount of cannabis, a lot of caffeine, a fair amount of stress, and genetics.
Weed and stress for me
Being doxed, hacked and stalked. I dont think it was normal what happened at the hospital and they wont come forward to give confirmation to my current doctor that im not crazy about the stalking.
So it has been an adventure showing them up. 
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I was stressed, smoking, drinking and started hearing voices. I think having schizophrenia though we are all bound to get symptoms no matter what. So to answer the question is Schizophrenia caused my first episode. We just have bad luck getting a crappy disease.
Stress for sure, cant take it!
Seriously I think its my genetics that caused it.
Weed just made it appear earlier.
its many factors,instability,stress,im 40 years old lol,its been time long i dont remmeber.autisim the list goes on.life is not with out peoblems.
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