Did it hit you suddenly? Did it escalate slowly?
What was it like, and how did you cope?
Just curious.
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I can see the seeds of sz in my life from even when I was very young. Back then my life was a mixture of egotism and fear. My life has always had a lot of fear in it. I started becoming dysfunctional in high school. I’d sit in class so scared I was sure something had to break inside me. I joined the army out of high school. I served my term and got out with an honorable discharge, but I was a private E-1 when I left. At college I was totally withdrawn. I went to class and stayed in my room. I was officially diagnosed when I was 28, but I had been ill for a long time before that. I got progressively more delusional. At one time I thought people were trying to get me to kill myself. I finally became med compliant, and for the most part I have been stable the last fifteen years.
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on a holiday in tenerife in 2001 couldnt sleep, super fear, paranoid bombshells dropped…pure psychosis locked up in the psychartic hospital for 2 weeks,in tenerife, i was never the same after it
Wow, glad you’re doing better now.
That sounds awful. I’m sorry you had to deal with that.
its still kind of hard to make sense of it, even though i went through it
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Sexual assault at 13 and heavy drug use between 14-19, symptoms started August 2014 due to the loss of my choice of outlet for aggression [football]
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Started hearing voices at age 12. Spent about 5 years in the hospital, 4 of them on a state hospital unit.
i tried to jump out the window in the psycharitic hospital because of the voices, and for that i was locked with straps to the bed for a day and a half, and ejected with strong tranquilzers
Started with what was later recognized as major depressive episode - I thought it was just a school stress and overload at the time - turning into manic phase where I was 24-7 actively out of the house, neurotic, drugged and euphoric - started abusing benzos to calm myself - which lead to more depression - finally got to my current psychiatrist who put the bipolar label - later I got the name for my other symptoms, finally understanding why i act like this, and it was borderline, BPD. I’m doing better since I know what is it and how does it affect my complete existence and people around me.
Just got out of abusive relationship…Have a kid from the previous one…this one carries only a few marks and scars.
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My diagnosis is schizophrenia. The negative symptoms hit me suddenly when the prodromal stage began. The positive symptoms developed over time. In the beginning I was very confused and as I stopped functioning I got depressed. Then my mood started cycling and I started having positive symptoms after that.
Before I got ill with prodromal sz I was in a good period of my life and was functioning very well, but a few years earlier I had recurrent depressions that went all the way back to early childhood, it started somewhere between the age of 8 and 10.
After I was 19 I partied a lot used meth. And after that things just didn’t seem right. Like I was never happy the way I was before. Then the tidal wave of symptoms crashed suddenly. I was lucky to make it.
me smoking weed throughout the early teens to late teens, triggered the psychosis along with e tablets a lot
I was diagnosed with psychosis when I was 18. My thinking was off. I was seeing and hearing things that weren’t there.
Can weed really trigger psychosis?
I heard s rumor that alcohol does too.
I have siblings who have done meth, for years. This worries me…
it doesnt cause it but it can trigger it
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Normal every day life, no problems no concerns.
Asked some questions about power ball on a pendulum.
Created a 500 word word sheet to speak to things on pendulum those answering me.
Started to feel things crawling on my head and moving on my face, eyes moved in pendulum motions.
Words formed in my inner mind in written words.
They started to talk to me and now we are a big happy family.
I have physical/visual/auditory hallucinations all day long
other then this I have a really good life, I would not trade with anyone.
Powessy
I have not decide if I need to be diagnosed yet or not the catholic priest told me he would pray for me .
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It escalated slowly, and I coped by listening to a lot of music, and trying to distract myself with other activities.
i watched ’ alice in wonderland ’ and…
Boom !?!
i was at a tea party 
with the march hare 
sipping earl grey tea…with a little sugar cube.
take care 
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