Are you really schizo in your own self perception, do you have a self perception or are you split in mind about that topic. I got psychotic in England after doing lsd, ecstacy and benzene, I also was studying and dabbled with the lefthand path. I wonder if it is real. I remember the night turning into a nightmare that didn’t stop. Do you believe you deserve to have schizophrenia?
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Lots of weed, LSD, ecstasy, cocaine, crack and magic mushrooms
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Yes it was my fault. All of it
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I think mine was a genetic predisposition triggered by stress.
No. No one deserves schizophrenia, but no one deserves a lot of things in life but they get them nonetheless. It could be worse.
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I don’t worry about whether I deserve it. I have it, crap happens, and my main concern is pushing past it and living an enjoyable life. WhichI have done for the most part. To all those who ask, “why me?” I ask “why not you?”
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I don’t deserve it, but lucky I got to know my issue.
I was very poor performer in general before schizophrenia, actually an utterly horrible chap.
When I decided to make a change in life this came in as a never returning tide and left me in a island of fantasy.
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I don’t worry about what I do or don’t deserve. Thingd happen in life for no reason. Eg. If you win lottery it isn’t because you are some amazing person, and if you get szit isn’t because you are a horrible person.
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I think I was developing psychosis at age 20 after some really strong Marijuana caused me to becoming dissociated for like 1 year. Then I did some ecstasy a few times and then I stopped all drugs and alcohol. Several Months later became a church camp councelor and I became much more entrenched in psychosis and totally blew up a couple months after that at age 23
I had plenty of mood symptoms and remember hearing voices as early as age 14 though.
I remember at age 7 seeing a skeleton creature in the corner of my room and I was scared to death to go to the bathroom at night.
Maybe was just wild imagination? I dunno
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My youth was quite traumatic. It was the people around me and the beers that let my schizophrenia surface
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For me it was love.
I was dating someone at the time and developed feelings for her. Somehow it blew my mind. Short-circuit. It was like I developed supersensitive feelings to all my surroundings and my mind couldn’t handle that.
I scared away the person I was dating ofcourse. Although in retrospective I don’t think we were right for each other in the long run.
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Stress triggered mine for sure.
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Piracetam abuse, and blowing my first interaction with someone who was just perfect for me. Ran away from her. Went slowly then rapidly mad after that.
Trying to get her again though. Am a work in progress.
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Alcohol played a role. Sexual abuse played a role. Some bad decisions played a role. Schizophrenia doesn’t run in our family. I’m the only one to get it.
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I cant identify any triggers so I guess its genetic
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I read the Amityville Horror novel when I was 10, got it from a used bookshop. It scared the crap out of me and had me afraid of the dark (and also pigs) for two months. Childhood imagination.
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Stress, especially my mother’s talk of demons, and school exams. I was diagnosed at age of 18 but psychosis started when I was 15 after my mom scared me with taking me for deliverance
I stepped on a LEGO once.
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I stepped on them several times per day when my daughter was between the ages of 4 and 8. I swear she left them out on purpose.
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I dunno, maybe a combination of things.
Stress and getting chocked by circumstances.
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