What was the first sign of mental illness you had?

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I heard a bolded sentence in a song

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How was it bolded, do you mean it had extra meaning or it was somehow visual? Your example is kind of neat, I simply had disorganized thinking and we thought it was ADHD.

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I didn’t know at the time but when I was in Middle School I would occasionally hear my dad’s voice in my head calling my name. It weirded me out but I never did anything about it or told anyone. Looking back I wish I had said something to my mom. It may have helped us nip my illness in the bud.

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I heard Satan is spreading his wings louder on Black Sabbath’s Warpigs song

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I started getting depression at 16 but went to a pdoc at 22, then got sz at 26

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All I can say to that, is that it sounds like you had an immediate onset, it’s more crisp than what I had. And if that’s true for you, they actually say the prognosis is better.

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My first sign of Schizophrenia was when was I playing video games at 5 AM and I heard a voice in my head say "knife! knife!’. I said back to it “no, that’s too much like my cousin’s murder.” I threw the controller down and I was scared ( I was 21) 8 months later at age 22 I was diagnosed with Paranoid Schizophrenia… (I’m 29 now, I have Schizoaffective Disorder now) My cousin was stabbed to death by her husband after she served him divorce papers.

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I had a manic episode. It was great. I lost weight and had all kinds of energy.

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I saw my grandpa at the foot of my bed giving me advice and comfort at age 12. At age 15 I heard voices telling me I was better than everyone else and that God doesn’t exist. I also saw demons in my room.

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I had solipsism ideation -if that’s a thing- since I was a kid.
I thought that I alone was real being and all others fake beings made by God to test me

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I started thinking the government was spying on me, and I kept trying to “escape” by walking for hours.

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so you guys believe it started in childhood?

hmmm, when I was in high school, I went through a time
of thinking there were animals under my bed

my room was in the basement
but I snapped out of it

first sign was forced speech

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do you guys believe a mother should put

her 7 year old on psych meds and call her schizophrenic?

glad my mom never did that.

that seems very rare, and not typical of the illness.

it kinda also gives psychiatry a bad name to the normals.

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There is childhood schizophrenia. It’s rare but it happens. And a parent should take the kid to a psychiatrist

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I worry too many kids might, in the big picture, might get medicated too often. But some kids totally need help I reckon.

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I don’t know how much of that can be outgrown though

because kids mimick their parents up to a certain age

I know a little about child psychology, I took it in high school.

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I am a psychologist. But that’s what I have heard

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not to go back into the old days

but you shouldn’t treat character flaws

or personality

I was probably a strange kid
at least that’s what my mother says,

You’ve always been weird.

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it turned me into an artist though, Jim, hehe.

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Is difficult @Daze. You don’t want your kids to suffer when they don’t need to. Is a fine balance between effective treatment and the over-medicalisation of normal aspects of the human condition. It needs an experienced doctor for that.

I am glad there is more child and adolescent services. It was swept under the rug when I was a kid. But at the same time I think some meds are over prescribed on a national level

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