What was the reason you devolped this illness

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Genetics and drugs. My dad had sz and i am in recovery from pain pills.

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Genetics, my grandmother had SZ. My grandma took Haldol and it worked well for her. I figured it might work for me but I ended up in the ER after one dose.

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Bad genes and a particular hallucinogen, mescaline.
The drug fukked up my mind for good.

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Possibly thru trauma and drug use

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Stress and trauma

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Genetics, trauma, drug use, chronic stressā€¦

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100% genetics.

My sister and I both have schizophrenia.

Thereā€™s not much mention of mental illness in our family,

But Iā€™ve observed it.

And there are a lot of suicides in older generations.

My sister and I believe they may have had schizophrenia too.

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I thought it would make me fun at parties :man_shrugging:

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I donā€™t know. Not really particularly drugs or genetics for me really. I donā€™t think any of my family members had sz. But I was very concerned and anxious over certain things. Seeing white insects. Paranoid. Etc. I had some trauma I guess. I just developed it I guess. I canā€™t really pinpoint it. @Mr_gerilla

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Drug abuse paired with a stressful childhood for me.

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the doctors had me do an m r i because no one in my family had ever had sz. no tumor just hard environental aspects caused my schizophreniaā€¦I was always very, very sensitive to sadness before I got sz. just broke my heart too many times I thinkā€¦

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Never done drugs
More genetics grandad had. Schiz
Got bullied at school might have been because I was schiz

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I pissed off a wizard.

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I think it was stress.

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drugs genetic & trauma

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Insidious onset in my case, symptoms developed subtly over more than a year. I had to retrace the sequence of events / thoughts / conversations etc. before coming to this conclusion. Mild paranoia, magical thinking, misinterpreted cues and so on.

But cause? I canā€™t put my finger on it.

If itā€™s trauma, it had to be something very early, something I couldnā€™t remember unless in a state of deep hypnosis, maybe. Or a large number of unprocessed mini-traumas (is that even possible?).
No drugs whatsoever.
No family members sharing a similar diagnosis.

Well, I try not to cry over spilt milk. Iā€™ve recovered quite a bit and Iā€™m grateful. They say focusing too much on the negative makes things even worse, so I donā€™t do that (anymore).

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I was injured on work working on a difficult project.

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I think it was too much stress, over too long a period, my willpower got to be too drained. My ego got overcome.

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I did that for the first time right before drivers ed in high school. I was soon asked to pull over and let another student drive.

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My depression happened kind of randomly, but the schizophrenia was there for a long time (all the way back to teenage years). I didnā€™t recognize it as schizophrenia until I saw a therapist.