There are a lot of theories about what causes sz but I’m curious to know what you think caused yours. I’ve listed some of the suspected causes of sz but also left a position for “other” for those of you who believe it was caused by something else. Please feel free to explain what you believe caused your sz if other.
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I got punched in the head in high school really hard, I was disoriented for a day, when I think about that is when things went kind of funny, but not in an intense way. I also spent a lot of my highschool and university career smoking pot. I think the combination of those two things led to my developing psychosis and being diagnosed with schizophrenia. I don’t think it was genetic because no one in my family has schizophrenia.
I think its genetics for me. Since I was very young I had illogical thoughts in the back of my mind but they surfaced when I was diagnosed with psychosis at 21-22y.o. I only smoked weed 3 times before sz so I dont think its that, one of my friends smoke a lot everyday and he never got sz.
I dont think weed causes sz but it definitively worsens symptoms for me even when I am on meds.
Genetics and stress, for me
I’m gonna guess it was a combination of things for me… stress, genetics and psychedelic drugs.
Can’t really say what caused it, could be a combination of things
I think genetics played a major role in mine, even though no one in my family has it.
But I also have had LSD. And I had a major car accident where I had a head injury and went unconscious so I can’t completely discount those possibilities of influence on it.
As far as stress goes…I think stress is just a trigger not a cause.
it’s genetics and getting pulled out of the womb with pliars when i got born… combination of those 2 i think is what caused it.
Smoking cigarettes …
Are you serious or joking?
Extreme stress 1515
Genetics, and a trigger that broke me
Trauma and drugs.
Deadly serious. I didn’t start smoking until I was 26, and noticed an almost immediate decline.
I always say I got Sz because Spock (my Dad) married Mary Poppins (my Mom)…so I’m the offspring of these two people.
Dad is unflinchingly stoic and all business while Mom is pure art/ music and creativity.
I also had a traumatic event occur to me decades ago. That, plus genetics and here I am.
I voted “other” because I’m convinced mine came from my environment and stressors.
Stress and weed for me
I think an unpleasant incident with a friend of mine and perhaps brain developmental problem like hormonal in my teens prolly caused it
But boy did it take away my life from me
How cruel can destiny be
I’m undiagnosed, but.
The first time I heard voices, I had just turned 15. This is before I got into any drugs, even weed. The voices were in my head for maybe a minute, then gone. They were internal, and I had no doubt they were in my mind. They were wildly different from the voices I hear today.
The first time I might have had visual hallucinations was when I was around 11/12. I still debate on whether or not this was a hallucination, but anyone else would definitely label it as such. It involved two men who I could only see through an unplugged TV screen, who were talking about me. Noting I had woken up, they proceeded to ask me questions. I was wide awake during, and I distinctly remember I should have been scared, but I was not.
I’ve had a handful of other psychotic episodes, mainly visual hallucinations, before my latest psychosis in which I haven’t stopped hearing the voices, feeling them, and seeing visuals from time to time every day. At the time this started I was using meth heavily.
I do think there’s a genetic link. My uncle is schizophrenic. But I think my drug use definitely helped it progress.