Sexual abuse, family problems, prodigious drinking.
Good things leading to complications and bad things. I had a big imagination as a kid and a highly analytical mind. It couldāve grown to be a very smart mind, but it went too far and broke down. Then again the bad gene was probably just there waiting to come through. Giving nice things like a big imagination at first before it grew up.
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I believe I was born with the propensity to become schizophrenia and a few bad trips on acid and smoking lots of pot and stress triggered it when I was 19. I feel that I would have become schizophrenic eventually anyways, without the drugs, but those factors I listed probably hastened the onset and made it worse.
I can relate to that too.
Maybe itās like a schizotypal personality before all that get worse.
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I forgot the āalcoholā factor 
Thereās a parasite in cat feces called toxoplasma gondii which people believe can cause schizophrenia, among other mental disorders. I donāt know how true it is, but I think itās an interesting theory.
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Ooh yes, @spacemonkey I had listened something of that too, itās true. Maybe. There are so many causes that can be the reason, but I give more importance in my case blows on the head and stressing factors. Surely itās a mix of a lot of factors.
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Exactly! Itās cool to read about the factors and the theories of how schizophrenia and other mental illnesses start. Psychology is interesting stuff. 
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If I could I would study just that, I find it very interesting too. 
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If a mother gets toxoplasmosis when sheās pregnant, it can be very severe for the fetus. But most adult pet cats arenāt excreting oocytes. Kittens or cats get the oocytes by eating infected meat, mice for instance. So itās more common in feral or outdoor cats. But once a cat is infected, it only excretes the oocytes for a few weeks, not permanently.
More pregnant women (and people in general) get infected by eating undercooked pork, beef can also be a source although itās less common.
Learned that recently and just thought it was interesting to know. Infection rates vary widely throughout the US and the world.
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Genetics. Maybe a basal skull fracture when I was little.
Possibly genetics on my Motherās side and extreme stress caused me to snap. I am still hopeful of a full and long lasting remission. I havenāt been sick that long. Had sudden onset 2 years ago.
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Mainly head trauma and stress.
Most likely complications in childbirth.
Crack cocaine and LSD
Physical and mental abuse in childhood.
Extreme stress.
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I think mine has a few facets.
1, Iāve had a lot of anesthesia
2, sexual abuse
3, bullying
4, controlling mom
5, stress at a young age
6, my father was an agent orange soldier
My grandmother had organic brain disease. But no one else in my family had schizophrenia.
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Genetics, winter birth, childbirth trauma, childhood physical, emotional and sexual abuse, adolescent, early and middle adult marijuana use, extreme stress from life events, exposure to pagan religious influence, and excessive exposure to cat feces.
Same here. And, I might add, Iām also interested in psychosocial factors that sustain it. Habits, expectations, desires, biases and so on. These are all factors the individual can do something about, sometimes only with great effort, others can help, too. If attributing influence to such factors is thought to be blaming the patient, so be itā¦ the other side of the coin is the freedom to do something about it. The view that we are merely victims, slaves to our illness, that makes me sad.
I think my schizophrenia was heredity since my 2 siblings are schizophrenic also. My father used to say all the time that people didnāt like him.
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