What was your delusions and symptoms before schizophrenia?

Here we go remembering what we know about preschizophrenia symptoms here i explain myself:

Started watching warrior motivational speech on youtube
Started saying that my head was gone because i had a traumatic brain injury
the truth is that my head wasnt gone and i succesfully completed high school and one year university
had very bad grades in school and didnt study at all
isolation i was lonely in school and didnt have friends

I think they should create a new drug thats so weak that you will feel nothing while taking it and at the same time heal symptoms of schizophrenia

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I believed I had cancer, I was in fact perfectly healthy. I also believed that I was being watched by social services. That was a difficul time

Started isolating and paying attention to peoples body language, on TV and real life. Thought I had it all figured out.

I started becoming very spiritual and showing an interest in the occult.
This started in my teens, before SZA hit later on in college.

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I didn’t have delusions before I had schizophrenia.

Yeah, I didn’t have delusions before schizophrenia. If you were having delusions, you probably already had sz, you just weren’t diagnosed yet.

I had delusions before I was DIAGNOSED sz too. Almost everyone does, that’s how you end up getting diagnosed.

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That’s why I hate people using their “diagnosed” date as their “start” date with the illness as seems to be the general procedure. Lots of times people have been struggling with symptoms for over a year before getting properly diagnosed, if you can even get them to enter a hospital willingly (big if).

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I had a lot of anxiety and no confidence. I didn’t really try, when I had a chance at life, because I didn’t have much hope for anything. I see now, I could have done anything.

Do you mean before I was diagnosed with Schizophrenia and put on meds? I experienced voices so loud, I couldn’t hear my coworkers talking to me. (Got to love those people who tell me “Just ignore them!” Yeah…okay. :sweat_smile: ) I also had delusions that people were plotting to harm me in some way or the other. I had visual hallucinations, such as talking to people that others said weren’t there. There was a lot of stuff that was just gibberish conjured by my own mind. I admit I’m partly ill.

I also experienced all kinds of supernatural stuff, prior to being on meds. For example, one year, I was putting out x-mas gifts under the tree. This was long after we all knew about Santa. I was just helping my mother get them all out. Anyway, I came into contact with a wrapped present, with my name on the tag. I heard all kinds of dialogue while I was holding it. Later, when I went to watch the DVD (which was A Fish Called Wanda, a movie I had never seen before), many of the lines I heard while holding the wrapped DVD, where repeated by the actors during the films. Many people don’t believe this is possible, but I’ve experienced stuff like this first hand, hundreds of thousands of times.

Another example: I was working at my desk one day, and heard a voice say “Looking for a blanket, looking for a blanket, looking for a blanket…” I turned away from my work, just as one of the family cats plunked herself down on several sheets of paper that lay on the floor. That was her thing. She’d even lie on newspaper, even though it was dirtier than the carpet.

But, regardless of where the hallucinations and psychic stuff come from, I chose to live without it by going on Abilify, which has made a positive difference in my ability to function.

Before I was diagnosed with schizophrenia, I had prodromal symptoms for about 1 year +. I had severe cognitive decline where my grades went from As and Bs to Cs. I really tried and worked my ass off and dropped out and was going to fail in the end so I sort of saved my GPA. It was still a 2.7 or something. But it could have been worse. I saved myself from embarassement. I always thought I had severe rumination or anxiety or even paranoia and mild OCD. I got OCD from my father, but some people including myself think I got some Asperger’s or ADD going on too.

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I could be wrong, but I thought (perhaps) people were following me and when I got Schizophrenia around August 2011 (my bad drug trip), I thought and talked about aliens and mars and ■■■■ like I got abducted my grey aliens or even reptilian aliens.

Isolation, lots of concentrated focus on studies and a fast deterioration, I cannot believe I passed Operational Research subject in midst of all delusions and next days Analysis Design of Algorithm exam I was totally hallucinating and not even ansered a single question.

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I just stayed in my room until dad picked me up and took me home a month later, I guess.

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I couldn’t look at pictures of people, or even sketches/paintings of people’s faces. Cause I would see their eyes watching me. If I moved to a different part of the room, their eyes would move, too, and keep watching me.

I had a close-up picture of “Mormon Jesus” in my room, on the wall, by my bed. I thought he was watching me, through the picture. I had to take it down.

I saw “ghosts” pretty frequently, starting at age 12. Also starting at age 12, I was diagnosed with depression. I also started having manic episodes, but adults just thought I was hyper kid.

I saw shadows moving on the walls, at night, watching me. I still experience this, sometimes. Like, people shapes, drifting through my room. Scared the crap out of me.

I had a delusion that everyone in California is a sl*t. Everybody. Every person. How absurd, right?

I thought people could read my mind / hear my thoughts. I especially tried to not think of anything while in a public restroom stall. I didn’t want anyone in there to hear my rambling bathroom thoughts.

My hubby, but at the time he was just my boyfriend, would come over to my apartment and play games on my PS3 after he was done with work, until I got home from work, myself. Well, one day I found a random earring on a wooden piece of cubby hole furniture. It may have been my friend’s earring… But I immediately jumped to he’s cheating on me in my own home??? I confronted him, and he was just utterly confused. And he was also hurt that I would think that. He’s not that kind of person.

I had a delusion that ALL men watched porn and were pigs. When I started dating Hubby, I said, “I know you probably watch porn, but I don’t ever want to see it or hear about it.” He said he doesn’t watch porn. I was like, WHAT. He said not every guy watches porn. That broke that delusion.

I had a delusion that every person with a nose piercing is a sk*nk. Meds got rid of that stupid delusion. I now have a nostril ring. Lol, funny how things change.

I had a lot of “judgemental” delusions, in the past. I wasn’t trying to be a b***h, it was all just delusional thinking.

Haaha i lold. Mine were that loud before too. Oh yeah dont forget theres also ‘distractions!’ And ‘music!’ :sweat_smile:

Solipsism, philosophical zombies as a kid.
Long before sz

When I was a kid I used to wake up at night and see ghosts, scary hallucinations and stuff. I would just watch them or close my eyes and they would disappear. They became less frequent as I became older, maybe the last time was 10 years ago. Other than that I don’t have visual hallucinations.

I also used to wake up in the middle of the night
and see visions. But the doctor said it’s normal
for kids

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I was extremely paranoid for several months before I started hearing voices. Every conversation being had around me, every laugh, was about me.

I couldn’t focus on anything, even on adderall.

I started believing people were watching me on my phone when I still lived in Houston. When I moved to Colorado, they were watching me in my apartment.

Self isolated for years prior with agoraphobia. Pushed everyone out of my life, didn’t socialize even online.

I’ve had hallucinations since pre​pu​bes​cence tho, and it’s difficult to say what delusions I might have had since this time, and before my current psychosis.

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